Although the model differs from region to region and doctor to doctor, concierge medicine basically means that patients pay doctors to be their agents, rather than the agents of third-party-payers such as insurance companies or government bureaucracies.
Airlines, hotels and car rental firms increasingly want to drive bookings to their own websites, rather than rely on online agents to whom they must pay a commission.
It just means that all machines that scan your body will display a generic stick figure body to TSA security agents rather than the X-ray nudie shot, seen at right.
But authors, playwrights and actors tend to be loyal to their agents, rather than the firms that employ them.
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And rather than asking for more furloughs, asking agents who are sworn to defend the lives of their protectees in service of their country, and asking for more pay cuts, they made the decision that they could not staff these tours, which are very labor-intensive for obvious reasons.
So, if you have a spymaster who unwittingly relies on double agents feeding the CIA enemy disinformation rather than accurate intelligence, conclusions drawn from such data will be erroneous, possibly dangerously so.
Others, no doubt, are being held for battlefield acts that could not be proved absent pulling U.S. troops out of combat so they could testify (as if they had been agents painstakingly conducting a criminal investigation rather than soldiers engaged in life-and-death hostilities).
Anyone going to Europe may also want to try to book a room directly from a hotel, rather than opting for package deals offered by airlines or travel agents.
Estate agents mutter darkly about potential purchasers heading elsewhere rather than pushing local house prices even more vertiginously high.
Rental agents are motivated to sell you a house rather than rent you one so as to collect a higher fee.
Mr Gore placed them from his office in the White House, rather than waste time getting into a limousine surrounded by secret service agents to make the calls elsewhere.
Agents' fees are lucrative and usually paid by the tenant rather than the landlord.
Agents (ie, managers) were feathering their own nests rather than serving the interests of their principals (shareholders).
China Life said its sales force of about 740, 000 agents will be focused more on higher-margin policy sales rather than short-term or single payment products.
Some believe that estate agents may be forced to introduce fixed fees for their services, rather than taking an average 1.5% commission.
For example, their 100, 000 Homes Campaign was launched to support change agents in communities throughout the country to move the homeless into stable homes rather than shelters.
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