Then again, the process often involves working with an agency.

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To my left was a gal working with the European Space Agency on an experiment to be flown on Atlantis.

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An ad agency I was working with a decade ago presented, as part of a new round of work, a rough cut of a crazy video featuring a frog, hot pink background, and loud pulsating music by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

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An OSHA spokesman said the agency is working with the Chemical Safety Board and Environmental Protection Agency to determine the cause of the Texas explosion.

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An unnamed official told the AP news agency that US investigators were working with the Russian security services, the FSB.

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"We are working with our multi-agency partners to look into concerns raised about the care of an elderly resident at a care home in Wraxall, " said Det Insp Mark Coleman.

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The film showed the living and working conditions of agency workers brought in to help with the Christmas rush, principally at an Amazon warehouse in Bad Hersfeld, in the state of Hesse.

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So the next time you are hiring a new team member, looking for differentiation in a brand or product or even hiring an ad agency, ask yourself if the people or the ideas you are working with are predictable.

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The agency is working with French authorities to try to trace the six carcasses, which were slaughtered at an abattoir in Somerset, England.

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Last week, Rachel Abrams of Variety wrote that Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is working with a couple of banks to put together a possible bid in an effort to acquire IMG Worldwide.

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Now, as its implementation begins, those critics have the choice of working with regulators to make the system safer, or simply to roll back sensible reforms, such as the creation of an agency to protect consumers from the kind of abusive practices that spawned this crisis in the first place.

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