His group's main business activity, prosecutors say, was to collect money from its members.
Both retailers and small businesses say the exceptionally cold weather in March damaged business activity.
The cost was rocketing interest rates, plunging asset prices, slowing business activity and rising unemployment.
It considered factors such as age, marital status, experience, and type of business activity.
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Expectations for business activity over the next three months were also low, the report showed.
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The Chicago and Dallas Feds both reported a cooling of business activity.
It is easier to misdirect business activity during boom times when people are less cautious.
Sure, healthy revenues and your break-even date are helpful barometers of business activity and customer engagement.
The Bank of Scotland PMI report suggested the highest level of business activity for seven months.
Meantime, business activity in the EU in December fell to its lowest level in nine months.
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Small business owners don't expect business activity to improve much in the next six months.
Mafiosi constantly seek to penetrate areas of legitimate business activity, the BBC's Alan Johnston reports from Rome.
The corporate sustainability and social responsibility movement is largely an alternative to government regulation of business activity.
The non-manufacturing ISM report showed expanding business activity, new orders and employment, but at a decelerating pace.
The seasonally adjusted HSBC Service Sector Business Activity Index fell to 51.4 in March from 54.2 in February.
Looking at business activity, the report said there had been a "solid and slightly accelerated expansion" last month.
Economists watch surveys such as the PMI closely, particularly because they give an indication of future business activity.
Lifting all restrictions on free business activity, she left Britons without social security.
In countries throughout the region, governments are working to spur new business activity.
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These are big ticket items that are sensitive to credit conditions and indicative of both business activity and consumption.
Business activity in the eurozone continued to contract in November, a survey suggests.
When these readings drop below 50, it indicates a contraction in business activity.
At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in June 2009.
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Unless these steps are taken, it would be wrong to expect a marked growth in the levels of business activity.
Creators and consumers still need each other but the publishers' primary business activity, making physical copies, is no longer necessary.
Stocks got a small lift early Thursday from a report on business activity in the Chicago area before drifting lower.
The data comes from market-sentiment specialists Marketpsych data who plot around 2, 000 different emotional responses to business activity, daily.
In the euro area, business activity declined to 46.7 from 46.9 in May, signaling weakness in both core and non-core countries.
Only Ireland achieved growth in business activity, with an index score of 55.3, close to its 20-month high reached in October.
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Its Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which measures business activity, rose to 46.5 in November from 45.7 the month before.
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