Silicon Valley pretty much invented the "free agent" model of hiring for new skills rather than training and letting workers go once those skills aren't needed.
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Sugarscape is not the only agent-based model that has started to explore the pattern of trade.
But in an agent-based model you simply run a computer simulation to see what emerges, free from any top-down assumptions.
And veteran model-turned-model agent Bethann Hardison was inspired, and she's moderating a panel discussion today in New York that's going to ask the question, what happened to the black fashion model?
CINF, which was started by independent insurance agents, has an agent-centered business model.
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In Ms Duong's model, each agent quickly learns to tell which other agents sell the produce needed to complement its own diet.
She was a 14-year-old in JFK Airport when she was first spied by an agent for London's Storm Model Management.
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In his model, a program called a management agent is installed in each device.
Miwa is a Japanese beauty working in Shanghai as a model, a make-up artist and an agent.
The charred vehicle was the same make and model as the one spotted by the Border Patrol agent hours earlier.
"Some are more famous than others and some are just talented young people who are around, " says Figgis, who recently directed model Kate Moss in a short film for lingerie company Agent Provocateur.
Bond says this model had a shortcoming though, in that once the healing agent was used, it couldn't be replenished.
It was there where she "unexpectedly" sprang to fame as a model after following her friends' suggestions that she enter a competition held by lingerie retailer Agent Provocateur.
We'll know soon enough what's going down, but user agent profiles recently published on Moto's own site detail two Android-powered devices -- model numbers MB200 and MB300 -- that feature UMTS (and very likely HSPA in some form), HVGA displays, and in the case of the MB300, probably a 5 megapixel cam considering a mention of 2592 x 1944 resolution.
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