Word: agent
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...relatively unburdened by government directives aimed at managing the economy. Catering to individual depositors and small-business borrowers, private lenders have powered much of the industry's recent growth. Among their target customers are people like Nguyen Thi Tuyet. Four years ago, the 30-year-old Hanoi travel agent became the first person in her family to open a bank account when she made a deposit in Agribank. Recently, she opened a second account with Techcombank, one of the country's private banks, and applied for her first Visa debit card. Tuyet says she prefers doing business with the latter...
...courses.”With such broad power, the new committee promises to become a bureaucratic monster like its predecessor, stifling curricular and pedagogical flexibility and operating only in line with the letter, not the spirit, of its governing legislation. The new standing committee may begin life as an agent of reform, as the Core committee did, but over time, dynamism will inevitably devolve into inertia. If the Task Force’s rhetoric of flexibility and openness is to become reality, it must be explicitly enshrined in the legislation, not left to discretion of a bureaucracy. Leery...
...Fortunately, patients like Snow have more options today than ever. Until 10 years ago, there was only one drug, a chemotherapy agent, available to treat colon cancer, and it wasn't very effective. In the past decade, more chemotherapy drugs, which are easier on the body, and new classes of targeted therapies, which specifically block a tumor's ability to recruit growth factors and blood vessels, have improved the survival of patients...
...travel agent had assured me Bishaq was his best driver for my planned journey through the Darfur refugee camps of eastern Chad, but things did not start well. We'd arranged a 5 a.m. start in the hope of crossing the 614 miles of unpaved road to the eastern town of Abeche by nightfall. Bishaq was not only five and a half hours late, but come 5 p.m., as we passed a dust-blown town called Mongo, he suddenly swerved through some metal gates, pulled up in a dusty courtyard, stepped out and ambled away with the word: "Hotel...
...then, insurgents subject it to mortar fire, randomly killing some of its inhabitants, who from time to time riot in protest over their treatment. If there's a grace note to be found in this grim tale it is provided by an American guard, a former real estate agent named Benjamin Thompson, an open-faced innocent who cannot believe that the nation whose uniform he wears can enforce the sub-human conditions he witnesses at Camp Ganci. He's not a sophisticated witness, but he is clearly a good and honorable man, recognizing a soul mate in the bedraggled form...