It is a long way from 2001 when the Eden Project was launched and invited local firms to do business with it.
The designation significantly strengthens U.S. sanctions on the oil company, potentially barring any foreign firm doing business with it from the American financial system.
It had no money with the firm when it blew up and had stopped doing business with it two years prior to its bankruptcy.
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That way, if a foreign site were indeed guilty of piracy the commission would force payment processors and online advertisers to cease doing business with it.
Merrill Lynch, which already owns 20% of Bloomberg, is unlikely to want more because then other Wall Street firms wouldn't want to do business with it.
Since then America has introduced sanctions that target Iran's central bank, the country's main conduit for oil transactions, by penalising any foreign financial institutions doing business with it.
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But if HSBC had been indicted for these offences, that would have meant that the US government and others could no longer have conducted business with it - which would have been humiliating and highly damaging.
Those who might lend to the country or company, those conducting other business with it, and those who might face the risk of default in other ways, can use this information to better plan their activities.
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The inclusion of America de Cali in the US's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list meant US nationals could not do business with it and any assets it may have had in the US were blocked.
"This new sanction at best represents a halfway house between the U.S. hawks and those in the U.S. who consider the stability of global markets should take precedence over punishing Iran and those who do business with it, " says Nigel Kushner, chief executive of Whale Rock Legal, a London law firm specializing in international trade and sanctions.
Cloud computing is and will have a major impact on skills across business, with IT being the most logically effected it will also impose itself onto roles in marketing, support and business roles in general.
Hong Won Tak, senior secretary for national security affairs, maintained the incident would not change the country's "sunshine" policy of seeking to engage North Korea or to cultivate business relations with it.
Deutsche Bank warns that it seeks to do business with the companies it covers, and therefore may have a conflict of interest.
Now Roosevelt was working with business, not against it, with positively astounding results.
Were that money to be divested or these companies otherwise obliged to choose between doing business with us or doing business with our enemies, it could have a profound effect on the ability of terror-sponsoring states to underwrite Islamofascist attacks against us.
Like Goldman Sachs, with which it has a close business relationship, it is a partnership with an aggressive, risk-taking culture.
The point here is oftentimes the business relationship has just as much to do with the business as it does the relationship.
But in March the movie theater next door went out of business, taking with it much of Arnold's foot traffic.
When Domain Associates decided to do business with Russians, it took some time to get to know each other and develop the necessary trust and understanding.
CropScience was formed from the merger of Bayer's existing agrochemicals business with the one it bought from Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
Another House committee and four Senate committees are probing whether U.S. satellite business with China gave it access to sensitive technology that could be used to improve delivery of nuclear weapons.
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This creates an emotional connection and ripple effect whereby others around the world will want to visit the country, do business it with and build their lives in a particular place.
As much as we would like the business sponsors to align their thinking of legacy code with business assurance, it is equally important that the IT stakeholders continually seek ways to drive and deliver better value out of their IT assets.
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Left too much to their own devices, such people are, they fear, as likely to run off with the business as to get on with it.
And, it is almost needless to say, they will want everybody that does business with them to do it the e-way too.
He started up event planning group Showtime with a fellow Villanova alum, and then spent 18 years building up the business before merging it with Sparks in 2005.
If DeCSS were to be outlawed, "it would be a blow to Linux development and, because our business is working with this software, it would be a hindrance to our business model, " according to Palvovich.
And, as the Country contemplates the extent to which government should operate like a business, it should grapple with the fact that no business would so dramatically underfund its accounts receivable function.
If American business as a whole felt that it was missing out on the next big technological revolution (and with it, the next big business opportunity), it would do whatever it could to save the Earth.
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