Second, until its privatisation between 1994 and 1996, Elf (which was taken over by Total Fina last September) was not just a company but an agent of the state.
The drilling companies typically acquire leases with landholders who have access to oil and mineral rights below their land by using a landman (either an employee of the company or an independent agent), who offers a fixed price per acre for the right to drill, plus a royalty percentage of the value of the produced hydrocarbons.
Be prepared to give your agent or insurance company representative a detailed description of the damage to your property.
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Spectrum has also signed an exclusive collaboration with Allergan (AGN), a technology-driven global health care company, for the development and commercialization of Apaziquone, an agent aimed at treating non-muscle bladder cancer.
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He said an FBI agent told him that his company was the victim of a new virus and an unknown perpetrator.
That is, today the company is rolling out a low-cost version of its intelligent virtual agent, affectionately-dubbed Sarah by some of the institutions that use it.
Here's why: In the next few months, you may get a letter from your credit card company, insurance agent, or broker that looks like a piece of junk mail.
Odeh later admitted to an FBI agent who interrogated him that he was in the company of the men who allegedly carried out the bombing of the embassy in Kenya, but he denied having a role in the plot.
Six years later, she started selling other companies' computers and soon was responsible for half of Compaq's sales in China--the company's largest agent in the country.
Each year, the group is at the mercy of the insurance company, and if rates go way up, a good insurance agent will shop the plan for the employer again in hopes of a better deal.
Ketan Somaia, Dolphin's Kenyan boss and majority shareholder, it turned out, has declined to appear before Kenya's public accounts committee as part of an investigation into a company which Mr Somaia had represented as an agent and which had defaulted on an arms contract.
As an aside, an insurance agent told me last summer that one of his clients who owned a company provided full coverage for his employees.
It was around the time of those early purchases that the author, now playing the part of a deranged millionaire across various internet venues, was employed as a literary agent, utilizing company resources to discover that he was living in the past.
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Next, make a list of the phone numbers and Web addresses for your travel agent, airline, hotel, rental car company, and any other travel related contacts.
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