On a Saturday morning in the winter of 1985, I was shopping at Mid-Island Plaza Mall in Long Island New York where I came across Sam, an investment consultant, who was soliciting business for his firm.

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She goes on to advise women not to forget their audience as well as who is soliciting whom for business.

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Ms. Que, who runs a boutique law firm that helps tech start-ups navigate legal issues, says she had to pick up practical skills networking, soliciting clients, forming a business plan on her own.

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Mans, known as a diamond dealer, began soliciting investors in 2005 for his diamond business, promising lucrative returns.

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Of course, other firms go well beyond soliciting unearned money, incorporating fraud and theft into their business models.

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He may become more interested if you can somehow integrate him, perhaps by soliciting his ideas, or by considering making him a business partner at some point in the future, when you have some tangible success and can expand.

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Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, both former presidents, went to jail for soliciting hundreds of millions of dollars from the country's biggest business groups.

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Poindexter likens the seven-year process of tracking down vets, soliciting accounts of their battle memories, compiling paperwork and navigating Washington bureaucracies to a grand business project.

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