And that looming threat has led Cray Research to try to redefine itself as a full-service company for scientists and engineers.

"I want to start a full-service company so a player can get major representation - quality representation - from African-American attorneys," Cochran said.

"We're rapidly becoming a full-service company," he said.

But the eastern German company was never really allowed to become a full-service company.

Fries purchased the surrounding rural farmland then hired a local labor force to build a dam, a cotton mill and a full-service company owned town.

Every time I had big success, I'd want to sign more acts and hire a bigger staff and make the label become a full-service company.

But Your Home Direct bills itself as the first full-service licensed Internet-based company in the state.

ShowClix is a full-service ticketing company that provides ticket sales and other event-related services to event organizers, promoters and venue managers.

Instead, full-service companies will do it all.

"We will be a full-service company," Mr. Smith said in a recent interview.