Between them, a tougher regulator and an efficient asset-sales agency quickly brought the problem under control.
Second, environmentalists have been effective at stopping timber sales because courts and agency officers have recognised consistently that the Forest Service, in catering mainly to logging over the decades, has failed to comply with scientifically sound resource-protection laws that govern forest management.
His father Kapil Bhatia started modestly as a sales manager in a travel agency then established his own shop catering to the North Indian market.
In economic news, home prices increased less than economists had expected in January, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, leaving sales of previously owned properties at the highest level in more than three years.
At the moment, Mr Mitchell's condition is in remission and he works full-time as a sales manager for a London photographic agency.
Manpower, America's largest temp agency, experienced flat sales in the fourth quarter of last year, down from 7% growth year-on-year in the third quarter, as demand from manufacturers plummeted.
Whatever team she puts in place, Miss Megawati seems unlikely to press hard for asset sales from the bank-restructuring agency, for deep cuts in subsidies, or for reducing the government's influence over small business and agriculture.
The Shawbost-based company and agency Leo Burnett will promote sales using social media.
In a positive sign, the agency said it is seeing growing sales from its parcel business.
Astra will submit its data to the Food and Drug Administration early next year, and the agency will decide exactly what its sales force can tell doctors.
In early May, stocks of Gree and DeNA fell more than 20% after the nation's Consumer Affairs Agency said it was considering whether a sales method called "complete gacha" violates the law.
The in-house agency is the brand, just like the sales guys, the factory workers, the engineers, the designers, and the products themselves.
While the agency is projecting U.S. industry sales will range between 14 million and 14.5 million vehicles this year, with moderate growth after that, GM is strong enough to weather another economic downturn and still stay profitable because of its much-improved cost position in North America.
Comparable NOOK sales reflect the actual selling price for digital books sold under the agency model rather than solely the commission received.
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Dilute the confidence of the public in the agency, and many billions of dollars in current and potential sales vanish overnight.
DC, have done before him: an agency called the Office of Government Ethics approves tax-exempt sales by quite a few people each year (but does not disclose the number).
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That has big implications for advertising as an educational tool and as a sales channel, says Jeremy Lockhorn, director of emerging media at digital agency Razorfish, a unit of Publicis Group.
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But the agency did move three years ago to put restrictions on short sales in certain heavily shorted stocks, such as Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia , Krispy Kreme , Overstock.com and Fairfax Financial .
The FDA had been poised to allow over-the-counter sales with no age limits when Sebelius took the unprecedented step of overruling the agency.
In February, Bombardier said it would be cutting 300 of its 900 agency staff employed in Belfast in response to a decline in global sales.
The online travel agency, which three weeks ago warned of a "substantial" sales slump and the axing of up to 20% of jobs, on Wednesday revealed that it had nearly reached breakeven point.
Sales are influenced by many factors, most of which are out of scope for agency involvement, such as pricing or distribution.
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Apple expects China to overtake the US as its biggest sales market, the company's chief executive has told China's state news agency.
AeroVironment hopes to generate sales not just from services like the Army and Air Force, but also from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security (for help with border control) and weather services (for storm tracking and disaster recovery).
David Acheson, the chief medical officer of the FDA's food safety division, said his agency is working with food companies to get spinach from other areas back onto grocery shelves after sales were suspended around the country.
Reduced sales could adversely affect "all of Africa", the World Diamond Council (WDC) told Reuters news agency.
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