Just like agents and editors turn down 95% of people who pitch books to them, I was doing the same thing.
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Investors in small cap stocks are much like talent agents who mine the Sunset Strip for up and coming bands.
"These systems are going to consist of collections of interactive, semi-autonomous programs...something like software agents that collaborate with each other, " says Kephart.
The more information that comes out, the more it looks like federal agents used cyberstalking as a pretext to launch their probe.
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However, for small businesses, self-employed people, or customer-focused individuals like insurance agents or financial advisers, it could be a really handy tool.
The first is that if you are going to use documents to support your position you have to hang on to them and be willing to show them to people, like IRS agents and the Tax Court.
"As a former protectee of Secret Service agents, I see no problem with the principle that they -- like all federal agents -- can be called upon to aid federal criminal investigations, " Quayle said.
TLRs tend to prompt the immune system to respond to infectious agents like bacteria and viruses - not allergens.
It still doesn't play ball with the big online ticketing agents like Expedia.
Listen to veteran and independent-minded agents like Marik instead of hounding them.
But for the handful of NBA free agents like Wilson Chandler, J.
Expedia competes with other online travel agents like Priceline, Orbitz and Travelocity as well as hotel chains that offer their own online booking services.
Klabunde is now targeting biological agents like E. coli and anthrax.
German consumers buy their traditional life insurance policies through agents like Allianz's, but they tend to buy mutual funds and other equity products through their bank branches.
When NBA free agents like LeBron James make choices based on how those decisions will play in China, you know that the vast Chinese consumer economy is not far behind.
But even more glaring was the disconnect between penny-pinching at the organizational level and profligate spending on past-their-prime free agents like Greg Vaughn and Vinny Castilla in an ill-fated bid to compete.
As for the Marlins, picking-up free agents like Reyes and making a serious run for top-tier player Albert Pujols has to be seen as directly-related to their moving into a new ballpark.
In his quote, Milton Friedman alludes to the traditional notions of fiduciary duties of corporate officers and other agents like financial advisors that require a strict duty of loyalty to the interests of the principle (the shareholders).
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At a seminar in Abu Dhabi this week, Major-General Patrick Cordingley, a Briton who commanded a brigade in the Gulf war, maintained that Gulf security was still threatened by potentially hostile neighbours (read Iraq and Iran), ballistic missiles, lethal agents like poison gas, and internal unrest.
Put like that, such agents might seem destined to render megastores obsolete.
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When the law that defines an estate agent is changed later this year, these private websites will be relieved of certain obligations placed on estate agents, like having to visit the property concerned.
Customs agents carry devices like basic Geiger counters in their shirt pockets to measure radiation exposure.
They have mostly bought homes at auctions and through real-estate agents, just like their mom-and-pop competitors.
Meanwhile, the big free agents, names like Zack Greinke and Josh Hamilton, signed without the Yankees a factor in their decisions.
Authors, writers were finding readers on their own without mediation of traditional agents and publishers like myself and no one was getting paid for it, but they were creating communities of readers and writers online that would eventually make a lot of the gatekeepers unnecessary.
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Liberty comes not out of institutions, like government, which inherently are agents of status quo-enforcing restrictions.
First, will all-star players of the future stay in places like Oklahoma City as unrestricted free agents?
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Even a company like Pfizer has to prioritize which agents it can advance as its oncology portfolio has grown.
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