Today, the value of a typical company's stock is more than 20 times its profits.

At a typical big company, there would have been enormous resistance.

Western Gas is a bit more indebted than the typical company in the fund.

One industry study found that a typical 1,000-employee company is now losing $10 million a year to such inefficiencies.

Ruth Stevens reports that the typical company with more than 1,000 employees has, on average, 21 different people involved in each sale of over $25,000.

Market research indicates that 70 percent of a typical company's phone traffic is internal.

The typical multinational company has estimated the total cost of dealing with the problem at several hundred million dollars.

In times like these, the typical American company cuts costs by laying people off.

All told, we expect that for a typical large company the change in accounting rules will reduce profits by about 25 percent.

In the typical company, the purpose of planning is for the business manager to get financial approval from the company's senior management team.