This, Ms Jackson suggests, may have contributed to the evolution of the author as independent agent.

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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.

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Dinklage, who has a form of dwarfism, came to prominence in the 2003 independent film The Station Agent.

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In the union lawyers' world, every player would enter the league as an unrestricted free agent, an independent contractor free to sell his services to any team.

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CINF, which was started by independent insurance agents, has an agent-centered business model.

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Or at least the cover page which clearly says: Report of Independent Counsel to SEC: Placement Agent Abuses at Kentucky Retirement System.

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Both Tobe and I, on his behalf, have assisted the Commission in its investigation of the KRS matter, including providing the Commission with a Report of Independent Counsel to SEC: Placement Agent Abuses at Kentucky Retirement System, a 32 page report dated March 12, 2012.

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