Of this total, nearly 19 million conduct their own independent business without any employees.
As part of the new administration here at Forbes, all writers are getting their own independent blogs.
Some of these are thought to have formed their own independent outfits, leveraging local grievances to recruit accomplices.
As a result, traders give the opinions of central bankers undue weight, and skimp on their own independent assessments of the economy.
But, only a few hours later, Swiss researchers presented their own independent study, called Sirtax, which showed a clear benefit for Cypher.
Some charities do their own independent counts, using the same methods.
The Android and Windows operating systems each have their own independent storage, so if you save something on one system, it won't be saved on the other.
Mr Grenfell has calculated that by releasing music on their own independent label they get three times as much per CD and six times as much when music is downloaded.
Kelley said TruePosition failed to present facts suggesting the competitors agreed in advance to shut it out of the standards-setting process, instead of merely doing so for their own independent reasons.
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They could have just left the U.S. to devalue the dollar on its own, in much the way that the Brazilian cruzeiro novo was being devalued in those days, and remained with their own, independent gold standard systems.
By law, CMS is prohibited from doing cost-effectiveness analysis, but as The Legal Pulse has previously noted, the ethic of factoring cost into coverage decisions permeates the agency to the point where its employees have conducted their own, independent research on the cost of certain drugs.
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Mobile banking has grown, but very few networks have made money on it, and banking giants such as Barclays are now aggressively launching their own network-independent offerings.
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South Sudanese citizens are grateful that they now have an independent state of their own.
The institute offers a number of suggestions to help independent retailers hold their own.
Republican strategists are mapping out plans for an aggressive independent operation of their own.
The two partners will become semi-independent states, running their own economies, currencies and customs systems.
The soft dollar firms formed their own lobby group, the Alliance for Independent Research, to counter the Morgan, Goldman initiative.
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Google also plans to opensource the mobile applications, so independent developers can build their own versions, or other services with random numbers.
Previously the company axed higher-risk auto insurance, ditched most non-North American insurance business and converted employee-agents into independent contractors responsible for their own benefits.
All the artists are independent, meaning they man their own booths, and there's not a red-dot-wielding gallery director in sight.
Countries such as Spain, with independent-minded provinces of their own, do not like the precedent of such places going their own way.
"They are establishing an independent lobby to press for their own interests regardless of the impact on the rest of the sector, " he said.
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These companies rely on trade association initiatives like BSCI's, independent third-party assessors and their own in-house auditors to monitor Bangladeshi suppliers.
These companies rely on trade association initiatives such as BSCI's, independent third-party assessors and their own in-house auditors to monitor Bangladeshi suppliers.
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Independent contractors are obligated to pay their own expenses and taxes.
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Retailers rely largely on trade association initiatives, independent third-party assessors and their own in-house auditors to monitor suppliers in Bangladesh, the second-largest clothing exporter after China.
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Abu Wali and his family have been threatened by different groups not happy with his independent activities, which cut into their own campaign to win local support or fear.
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