Ms. Nazarian is one of the primary shareholders of Nazarian Enterprises, a venture capital group with investments in green energy, and SBE, an entertainment group that owns several luxury hotels, restaurants and nightclubs.

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The squad is now seen for what it is: a group of committed but unexceptional players, albeit enlivened, as with many collective English enterprises (governments, armies) by one dashing individual, the striker Wayne Rooney.

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Although the foreign-invested enterprises dominate the market at the moment, the local brands, as a group, are rapidly gaining ground.

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Europeans bought about 9% of a China Development Bank dim-sum bond and 8% of one sold by Beijing Enterprises Group, Dealogic said.

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"The acquisition of Meraki enables Cisco to make simple, secure, cloud managed networks available to our global customer base of mid-sized businesses and enterprises, " Rob Soderbery, senior vice president, Cisco Enterprise Networking Group said in a statement.

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For example, in many enterprises, smartphones (particularly the iPhone), were once a novelty and what did the IT group do?

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