The popularity of social networks like LinkedIn makes this kind of legwork easier than ever.
The cost can reach into the high six figures, mostly for the legal legwork.
But the approach could be risky: Foreclosing on bad loans requires more legwork than buying homes directly.
In 2006, after internal legwork, the IRS reviewed the foundation in what Livestrong officials called a normal examination.
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To that end, my legwork produced the following two names: Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX).
With a little legwork, he managed to redeploy his political strategy skills to a position as a professional sports agent.
Networking simply exposes you to opportunities or prospects that you have to then do the legwork of pursuing and capitalizing on.
There are tools on websites such as Kayak.com, AirfareWatchdog.com and TripAdvisor.com that will do the legwork for you.
In absence of experience, we utilized a lot of legwork, some educated guesses, and massive amounts of research to grow our business.
Things have been quiet in Smart car land this past year, as Mercedes has done its legwork to get Smart up to speed.
The legwork is far more fun when the results are guaranteed.
Relay launched in 2009 with the help of legwork from interns from local colleges like the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, and then expanded to Richmond.
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Brunei's publicity-shy leader, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, has led the tedious legwork to avoid any major hitch in the ASEAN summits his tiny but oil-rich kingdom hosts this year.
There's a lot of legwork, says adviser Abigail Asher, who with her partner, Barbara Guggenheim, builds collections for many celebrities and entertainment-industry executives like producers Aaron Spelling and Ray Stark.
"Here I was doing all the advertising and legwork to get fans into the arena, and Boston University was getting all of the revenues from parking and concessions, " he says.
You also have to put in the legwork.
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As a work of popular science it is exemplary: the focus may be the numbers, but most of the mathematical legwork is confined to the appendices and the accompanying commentary is amusing and witty, as well as informed.
For advertisers, the technology takes a lot of the legwork out of buying ad space, particularly across screens owned by multiple firms, said Mike Finnegan, director of product development at Xaxis, an online media-buying platform owned by WPP PLC.
We recently carried out a survey of in-house lawyers (the buyers of services from law firms) and found that more than two-thirds were willing to pay more for higher-value legal services if they could pay less for lower-value legal legwork.
As for the task of taking over supervision of all 6, 000 or so euro-zone banks, which it must do by January 2014 at the latest, that is not quite as daunting as it first looks, since most of the legwork will continue to be done by national supervisors.
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So we've done the legwork for you, talking with concierges, tourist boards, and other travelers to find out the real protocol on when (and when not) to reach into your wallet and how much of a tip you should give to waiters, sky caps, maids, doormen, and cabbies all over the world.
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