Combined with a logistics agent based in Singapore and production facilities in India, they were able to overcome a potential agricultural catastrophe.
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To find out, we valued each free agent based on the degree to which his teams have grown revenues relative to payroll expense during his tenure, going back to 2002.
Sugarscape is not the only agent-based model that has started to explore the pattern of trade.
Agent-based modelling does not assume that the economy can achieve a settled equilibrium.
But in an agent-based model you simply run a computer simulation to see what emerges, free from any top-down assumptions.
Unilever, for instance, is using agent-based modeling software to analyze the purchasing and social patterns of 150, 000 customers who use Swiss online grocer LeShop.ch.
Louis-based agent Robert Lattinville, who also teaches sports business at the University of St.
The news agency added that Mr Zhang's Los Angeles-based agent had not responded to a request for comment.
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Zhang's Los Angeles-based agent didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
McKay, a Monaco-based agent, is acting as a consultant to Doncaster and is responsible for arranging a number of the loan agreements, with more to come in January, when the transfer window re-opens.
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In seconds, its Internet-browser-based agent negotiates deals that match your calendar (no morning flights, the software sees an early meeting that day in your Outlook calendar) and your likes (outdoor pool, bandwidth, that cool restaurant you booked before).
At present, it has no formal representation beyond some information-gathering by a Scots-based Bank agent.
Richard Butz, a Pennsylvania-based travel agent with Cruise One, said he'll have no trouble selling trips on Quantum.
Andrew McGhie, a Lamu-based estate agent, says that Kenya's coast tugs at people's heart strings, not just their wallets.
Travelocity, the largest Web-based travel agent, has 19 million registered users and processed 1.8 million transactions in the first quarter of this year.
MyCyberTwin, which has developed an avatar-based virtual agent for financial institutions that boasts a three-second response time and an astonishing 94% accuracy rate (better than many human reps), is moving downstream.
Laurent Sainsot, a Paris-based estate agent who hunts on both sides of the Channel, regularly collects surplus fox-hounds from his English contacts, and finds them excellent at adapting to French conditions.
"Europeans are usually more concerned with quality hotel accommodations, good food and one-of-a-kind shopping, " says Chrismar Kuhn, a Basel-based luxury travel agent and fan of Sylt, a German North Sea island.
However, agent Nick Barlow from Midlands-based Barlow Associates said the property was still on the market.
Maya, based on a real agent, whom Bigelow and Boal have elevated out of agency anonymity, is an obsessed woman, with no personal life or interests.
"The thing is that most of these places come unfinished and unfurnished, so you have to factor those costs in too, " said Brett Miller, the managing director of Rangoon-based commercial-property agent Scopio Services.
They range from a love story starring a Hollywood actor, to a home grown tale of music triumphing over adversity, and from an IRA undercover agent intrigue to a Londonderry-based story of youthful angst.
Agent Nick Barlow, from Midlands-based Barlow Associates, said the base had been on the market for some time and he hoped the eBay listing would attract extra interest.
Preview Travel has a pretty cool Web site, mimicking a skilled travel agent right down to anticipating--based on where you have traveled in the past--the type of trip you are booking.
Previous projects included designing an electronic travel agent that was able to act in the same way as a high street travel agent, producing the best holidays for clients based on their expressed preferences.
Egham-based Hotels4u.com acts as an online booking agent for hotels, apartments and villas.
U.S. securities law and regulations restricts registered investment advisors (an agent) as to whom they may charge a performance-based fee.
Would a London-based team be at a decided disadvantage in trying to lure free agent talent or sign draft picks?
The problem is that everyone seems to engage not only his interest but also his sympathy: Fernando (Pedro Cardoso), the kidnapper on whose memoir the movie was based, is nagged by doubt, and even the secret-service agent who specializes in torture is unable to sleep at night.
First up, Act of Valor, based on the 2012 movie about a group of Navy SEALs rescuing a kidnapped CIA agent.
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