Resigned last year as chairman of Taisho Pharmaceutical, known for its Lipovitan energy drink and Riup baldness treatment, but business is still a family affair.

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But as I said, this may require a new version of the enterprise application and all the customizations to fit your infrastructure and business processes a costly affair.

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For A Gadsby Affair, our biggest challenge has been building a business in a competitive industry as well as a difficult economic environment, but so far 2011 has been our most successful year yet.

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Even with the drinks business gone, BolsWessanen will remain a disparate affair.

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The most striking thing about the affair is that a set of business tycoons have, so far, behaved in a way that is a lot more civilised than anything seen from the Russian state.

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Now, thanks to the Backbench Business Committee, what was once a pretty rambling affair is structured so that speaker are grouped into topics, and answered by a suitable minister - a far more effective use of Commons time.

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Clinton's five-hour stopover on March 25 was a low-key affair, brusquely business-like and conspicuously devoid of the enthusiastic celebration of local life that had marked Clinton's triumphal passage across India.

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Perhaps because the U.S. is a country which places less emphasis on big government and more on business the U.S. legation is a relatively small affair, tucked away on the 4th floor of a non-descript building in Perth.

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By reviving suspicions of a cosy, protectionist culture in the Italian elite, the affair has damaged the country's reputation as a place in which to do business just what Italy didn't need as it clears up the mess left behind after the spectacular collapse of Parmalat, a family-controlled dairy group.

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Business is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately kind of affair.

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The Lewinsky affair hit Bill Clinton at a similar time, after a run of other bits of sexy, sleazy business.

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