Does the deal mark the end to the full-service independent investment banking model?
The industry's leading trade group, the National Association of Campus Stores, tested a Web-site hosting service for independent campus stores at five schools for several months and announced a widespread rollout of the program set for spring.
In October the Polish government passed a law to give politicians greater power to appoint top civil servants, and scrapped the independent civil-service office.
Staff at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), an independent federal agency, support and facilitate community-based service programs across the country to meet all kinds of local needs.
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Unilever distributes its products to a variety of chain, wholesale, co-operative and independent grocery accounts, food service distributors and institutions.
The tradition ended under Richard Nixon in 1971, when the Post Office department was removed from the Cabinet and made a semi-independent agency, the U.S. Postal Service.
And neither affects an illegal's ability to get a tax identification number from the Internal Revenue Service and hire himself out as a nonemployee "independent contractor"--with no income, Social Security or Medicare taxes withheld, and often none paid.
Although she did not live long enough to see the new inquests take place, she did make it to the 24th annual memorial service at Anfield on 15 April - the first held since the Hillsborough Independent Panel exonerated fans of blame.
Luckily, our brokerage firm had a portfolio management service that provided high-net-worth clients with direct access to top independent advisory firms.
An independent agency, the service gets no tax dollars for its day-to-day operations but is subject to congressional control.
Even the smallest independent bookstore will have access to a sophisticated electronic-book sales service with a vast selection of titles.
According to the Independent Healthcare Advisory Service (IHAS), about 200, 000 anti-wrinkle injections, which includes Botox and dermal fillers, are carried out in the UK each year.
Linda Dodds, head of the Independent Safeguarding and Standards Service, said it was important the various agencies were co-ordinated.
When the Air Force became independent from the Army in 1947, the latter service retained lead responsibility for ground-based air defenses which at the time consisted primarily of anti-aircraft artillery.
The health service regulator Monitor has appointed independent consultants to look at how services in the area should be re-organised - to ensure that they meet local needs, and the NHS can afford them.
"In some ways, it's invest to save, because if you can get people staying independent - particularly older people - longer, it keeps them out of the health service, it keeps them out of hospitals therefore you're saving money in the NHS, " he said.
"We'll only know the truth when there's an independent investigation, " environmentalist Dong Liangjie wrote on the Twitter-like Sina Weibo microblogging service on Wednesday.
Film rental complements the catch-up TV service YouTube operates in the UK with the help of Channel 4, Five and many independent production companies.
Students in the program pursue independent research projects, complete an interdisciplinary curriculum, gain entrepreneurial skills, and participate in service-learning activities such as Engineers Without Borders.
But any sell-off is likely to be balanced by firm guarantees for the continuation of a universal service supervised by an independent regulator.
Conservative-Independent led Cornwall Council said it was "extremely disappointed" by the decision to end the service, which has offered as many as 40 flights a day and is thought to be used by up to 130, 000 people a year.
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If the client wanted more help, Schwab later punted him off to a small army of 400 investment advisers, the independent financial planners who passed Schwab's sniff test for fee-based services and unbiased service and who agreed to pay referral fees for the clients.
He proposed that there should be a new independent regulator with teeth, which could also offer a "one-stop-shop" mediation service for libel and privacy cases, as an alternative to the courts.
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