My business partner Alan and I had received the call a few days earlier.
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Shadow business secretary Alan Duncan said the measures amounted to a "small bandage on a massive wound".
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However, shadow business secretary Alan Duncan accused ministers of "raiding" the pension fund to "bail out government borrowing".
The boss of Boeing's civil-jet business, Alan Mulally, is even toying with the idea of turning up in person.
The information that my business partner Alan and I provide is used to develop the questions that pollsters ask of voters.
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Although getting the football side right is a serious business, Alan and I have a lot of fun doing it and we are developing a mutual trust.
They're business owners like Alan Givens, who wants his company to sustain itself through bad times as well as the good.
Business aviation expert Alan Peaford says that only 20% of flights in the continent are with African airlines, the remaining 80% being with international carriers.
And I was encouraged to hear that Alan's business is going strong on a whole bunch of clean energy measures that he's helping to promote in his area.
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Hanson Chief Executive Alan Murray has built the business around both this resource extraction and processing building materials.
The Trilantic spin out was linked to South African billionaire Johann Rupert and Alan Quasha, a former business partner of convicted bank fraudster Hassan Nemazee.
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When the serious stuff needs to be done, however - and matches in the bottom three are a serious business - that's the way Alan was and will be.
Mr. ALAN HUGHES (Editorial Director of Business Finance, Black Enterprise): Thanks for having me.
And Alan Hughes, editorial director of business finance at Black Enterprise.
Alan Hughes is the editorial director of business finance at Black Enterprise, and Aaron Elstein is a senior writer at Crain's New York.
Agents, even if working for the seller, do have some ethical duties to buyers, adds Alan Strudler, professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton.
"It's just a necessary part of transacting business in the U.S., " says Alan Kaplinsky, a Philadelphia lawyer who has spent much of his 40-year career advising and defending financial-services firms.
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Operating out of their Wisconsin family farm, Alan and his brother Dale got into the airplane business at the low end.
For 15 years, Alan and Carolyn Mazkouri, from Swansea, had a business deal with Orange for 10 phones.
And even though Alan had never been in the hotel or real estate business, he had an unbelievable clarity of vision I'll never forget, in 2000, he walked me through this gutted brick structure and was describing the color of the curtains, the type of wood floor, the long bench in the entrance.
Alan Mulally, chief executive of Boeing's commercial aeroplane business, says he has never seen things so bad in his 33 years in the business.
"We are in a good position to reduce capital expenditure, targeting investment at business areas that deliver sustainable returns while maintaining flexibility in forward fleet commitments, " Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas said in a statement.
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After the financial crisis, Guggenheim was able to tap Alan Schwartz to build and run its investment banking and securities sides of the business.
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Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Fed, has repeatedly warned that a recovery in business investment will be critical for a sustained economic recovery.
Alan Chen and David Beim, Professor of Professional Practice, Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, asked me to teach a group of senior-level executives interested in doing business in China.
Of that, at least, surely the tough-talking Sir Alan, who has described his own target market as the "truck driver and his wife" and business as "all about the punters", would begrudgingly approve.
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