When Grant Thornton is asked to submit a request for quotation, they now do a company-company relationship analysis to see who they know at the prospect and how well they know them.
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What the author could not have anticipated was that today's frictions include not just the protectionism, resentment of immigrants, financial fragility and overburdened polities of the late 19th century, but the prospect of war as well.
How well such a prospect will sit with the voters is an open question.
The organization already runs similar operations at the Celebrate Brooklyn concert series at the Prospect Park Bandshell, as well as the Great GoogaMooga food festival.
In the U.K. market, Wal-Mart's Asda supermarket chain has been facing increasing competition, as well as the prospect of being prosecuted for its refusal to recognize unions.
The sight of departing warships has been concentrating minds, say protest organisers, as well as the prospect of next week's report by the UN inspectors which could provide a trigger for war.
News organizations must tackle a new and growing set of technical and financial challenges in the mobile space as well as the prospect of forever ceding a share of revenue to platform providers such as Google or Apple.
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They tempt stars by stressing the festival's legendary history and its charitable, political and environmental legacy - as well as the prospect of selling lots of albums, T-shirts and tickets to people who see the show on TV.
In the case of Mapletree Greater China, Mr. Crockett said investors likely favored the trust's promise of good yields amid low interest rates, as well as the prospect of further growth by purchasing more assets from its sponsor, Mapletree Investments.
His target audience includes professional services firms in law, accounting, market research and real-estate, hoping that LinkedIn can help their partners prospect for clients, as well as banks, pharmaceutical companies and medical-device makers that see LinkedIn as a way of developing better sales contacts.
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In July 2011 the company drilled an exploration well on the Fulla prospect, where reservoir sands were found to be oil-bearing.
And Noble, for its part, will be especially careful, since its newly permitted well in the Santiago prospect is 46.5% owned by BP.
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This is because it falls in part on money that people were setting aside anyway for their old age, which should be unaffected by the prospect of the tax, as well as on intentional legacies.
And given the prospect that a fallback might very well be spending cuts only because of the difficulty getting agreement on revenue, you said the President insists that revenues be part of this, and shared sacrifice.
Given this prospect, it is little wonder that the same western steelmakers that have done so well out of rising Chinese demand are now quaking at the prospect of fleetloads of Chinese metal steaming straight into their markets.
The only way to motivate convicts with no prospect of early release was to feed well those who worked hard.
But also to the prospect of eventual victory there, as well.
The Germans are already warning not to expect anything very dramatic or comprehensive from this weekend's EU summit - in which case the G20 will be staring failure in the face, a prospect that will infuriate President Obama as well as our own PM.
Mr da Silva is well aware that it was the prospect of his victory which initially unnerved the markets.
The authorities also want to halt the possible mis-selling of financial policies, where the adviser is more interested in the prospect of earning commission payments than the financial well-being of the customers.
Mr Clegg said Labour was well aware there was "absolutely no prospect" of achieving a real-terms cut.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Labour was well aware there was "absolutely no prospect" of achieving a real-terms cut.
The Shenandoah well was the second drilled into the prospect.
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Replacing the bitter, divisive Mr Brown with the calm, well-liked Mr Johnson is an attractive prospect.
And the free marketeer in him clearly relishes the prospect of really taking on the big, rich and well-entrenched firms that dominate the oil industry.
Ms. PARKER: Well, we were really excited about the prospect of being able to purchase our first home, and we didn't go to all the wonderful classes that are out there for first-time home buyers.
Officials from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development have said the government will support owners looking to upgrade as well as first-time buyers, raising the prospect they will get better access to mortgage loans.
To the neutral observer, the series, bringing together two well-matched teams, is an intriguing and unpredictable prospect.
And with newly-born son Tyler doing well, Young can switch his attention back to the prospect of making his top-flight debut against Everton on 19 August.
The mere prospect of such an exclusion, let alone its implementation, may well compel such companies to forego any future transactions in the country in question, rather than lose access to so important (both symbolically and financially) a U.S. customer.
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