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In an effort to clamp down on the lucrative poaching industry that sprung up around the big cats, sales of tiger parts were banned in 1993.

China was supposed to provide a lucrative outlet for global private equity firms trying to wring returns from portfolio companies back home.

That frugal business model has helped it deal with the fact that it has been shut out of some of the most lucrative routes in the nation.

on the surface they looked potentially lucrative, but in light of my overall long-term goals, it's clear they would be off course for me.

Like the rest of the areas on our list, Miami Beach is no doubt lucrative, but it's not likely to grow much more any time soon.

Sunderland came close to signing Johnson a year ago, before City swooped in and made a more lucrative offer to Middlesbrough.

The club is well-run, with intelligent board members like Fiszman, and with coffers beginning to swell at their lucrative new home. . .

If it wasn't for our minimalist lifestyle I would not have had the freedom to say no to a lucrative paying job.

In the long run, the net result of China's actions will be a smaller share of this lucrative market.

Statistics majors tend to be highly sought-after graduates and are often hired into lucrative positions straight out of college, Wong says.

Venture capitalists would not put so much money and effort into nurturing start-ups if they did not dream of a lucrative IPO.

The ambitious junior finally decided to leave school in pursuit of more lucrative movie roles by heading for the Big Apple.

But home-grown brands such as Trands are trying to raise their profile both at home and abroad to get a piece of the lucrative luxury pie.

"Chemistry inventions, unlike almost any other invention, can be very lucrative, " Toussant explains.

The more creative people chose the more lucrative right side even though there was no reason for them to believe it had more dots.

Buying a piece of Bear Stearns was attractive to KKR as an entree into the lucrative brokerage business at a time when prices were cheap.

Casual games are extremely popular and very lucrative, and it's easy to see why.

Online games are one of several industries that have found micropayments to be a lucrative model for supporting their businesses.

Child trafficking is rampant in Southeast Asia, with hundreds of thousands of children caught up in this lucrative and shadowy business.

At the time he said he would like the group to focus more on lucrative luxury goods.

There he discovered it was more lucrative to invest the money he controlled directly than to take fees on transactions for others.

Analysts said the premium offer reflects the company's eagerness to get into more lucrative niches.

When it comes to seeking outsized returns, "stripping" has been a lucrative venture so far this year.

The software giant had wanted to do a deal to be able to compete with Google, which dominates the lucrative market for internet advertising.

He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.

Others have interests in Internet-related ventures like the sale of censorship software that could prove to be lucrative sources of income.

At the heart of all of these massively lucrative franchises is a hero who will do anything to protect (or get home to) the woman he loves.

With its economies of scale and abundant labour, China is hoping to gain an edge in what promises to be a lucrative new industry.

If you invested in a more lucrative vehicle, like the stock market, you can become a billionaire much quicker.

A decade ago they backed an introverted search engineer and never anticipated he would take them on such a lucrative ride.

Both cities have been caught up in turf wars between drugs gangs fighting over lucrative smuggling routes.

Rather than being a lucrative job, in her experience, as soon as a woman starts working at one of the clubs, it costs her money.

All this gives both foreign and domestic Chinese publishers confidence that the industry will become increasingly free and lucrative.

The aluminum industry was one of the most lucrative in the chaos following the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.

Nor did a popular search engine, Google, show signs that it might be a lucrative business, much less a new technology superpower.

Cheryl Cole had every reason to smile as she posed ahead of her lucrative 30-minute gig at the Cannes Festival last night.

It's not unusual for high-profile politicians and bureaucrats to leave government for more lucrative positions in the private sector.

But there is no doubt that Palin earned lucrative move again as the political capital, from the 2012 election seems a step closer.

One mainland Chinese investor who owns real estate in London and elsewhere said his London investments were his most lucrative.

Mr. Domingo has long had a pop-culture presence from his lucrative years with the Three Tenors and his continuing mass-audience ventures.

As well as base salary hikes, banks are once more offering guaranteed bonuses to staff approached with lucrative offers by rivals.

The move would send ripples throughout the basketball world as the most iconic NBA player would be playing overseas in a lucrative market.

He said lucrative fees that Moody's and S& P received for rating the investments affected their objectivity in assessing the debt.

But every proper scientist in the lucrative field seems to agree that provided you live a healthy life, it's your genes that really count.

Mr Wang said the stake in the lender would give China Mobile a bigger share of eventual profits from lucrative mobile payments.

The company uses the retail channel as a tool to boost sales from its lucrative hardware business.

New Market: Conversation B: Chen: This country is a new market, and I think it could prove to be very lucrative.

Two years later, by which time he had retired to a lucrative business career, his efforts were recognized by the Nobel committee.

Essentially, people are able to download messaging units and trade or transfer them as part of what has become a lucrative barter system.

The client's usual sources will be on holiday but if you are home, you may be able to pick up a VERY lucrative new client!

The lucrative jobs they expected as a reward for years of hard work have vanished and show little sign of returning in the near future.

Yet while pig-breeding seemed a smart move a year ago, it does not appear quite so lucrative now.

He is often tempted to find steadier, more lucrative work.

My business isn't glamorous -- I own my own Web design firm -- but it is lucrative, and I love the challenge of running my own company.

Worse, China's private-equity industry has become another lucrative billet for the children of powerful officials.

Claims to have owned the largest theater, Zhang Baoquan asserted that the cinema is the next lucrative industry.

A special reward program makes it lucrative to contribute multiple vulnerabilities, he said.

This could be a very lucrative project as each state would have 3-6 subdomains that I could sell and then would neet to be developed.

To many engineers, both of the above processes can prove to be absolutely fascinating and enjoyable, not to mention (at times) lucrative.

The union told the government agency that it had just struck a lucrative deal with Boeing covering its workers in Washington state.

But it also allows for a potentially rewarding (and potentially lucrative) random human connection, and that's what interests investors.

Huawei is one of many Chinese companies that are pushing into more sophisticated and lucrative businesses.

That may be lucrative, but it will also be stressful (already, secret mistresses have come forward).

For some bankers, sustainability is still just another product attribute necessary to win lucrative mandates.

Verizon and AT&T have found a way to offer a premium product to a shrinking but lucrative segment of the market.

Four years later he handed over to someone who wanted to trade in a lucrative day job for the buzz of running his own business.

Since deposit rates are, by law, low, and the spread between them and lending rates quite large, the growth has been enormously lucrative.

The demotion means the club will miss out on millions of pounds of lucrative television rights and sponsorship money.

When he applied for the lucrative linguist job, Habib said his recruiter gave no hint he would join a ground assault in Taliban land.

The securities firms still standing on Wall Street are about to close the most lucrative quarter since the credit crisis erupted.

This must be a lucrative business, I said.

Xinhua is also aware that market news has often been a lucrative niche of the global financial industry.

Starr didn't see any conflict of interest in keeping up a lucrative law practice in which he was paid large sums by my adversaries.

That automatically makes it a far more lucrative system for servers who work in upscale restaurants.

It is common to box ourselves into a lucrative career that we hate, with the belief that the money will make us happy.

Several of his former Fed colleagues have found lucrative work on Wall Street, as well as the speech circuit.

One of the biggest and most lucrative private equity deals in Asia is hanging in the balance just weeks from its closing date.

Herbal treatments are the most popular form of traditional medicine, and are highly lucrative in the international marketplace.

Since the early 1990s, when stadiums were upgraded and lucrative broadcasting deals agreed upon, the league has become a money-spinner.

Their mastery was more lucrative than ever, and it was emulated around the globe.

Fellow Dutchman Frank Rijkaard had hoped to lure the former Manchester United star to his club with a lucrative offer.

This indicates that specializing in the BI field can be a lucrative strategy and a good investment in your future.

Uncertain get rich quick schemes will not be as lucrative as you anticipate.

Two years later, Cheung became the first Hongkong singer to win over the lucrative mandarin speaking market with the album 'Goodbye kiss'.

One of the most popular and lucrative part-time jobs is to tutor, either for a college-prep class or a specific subject.

Uruguay is a good example of a country that gained access to a lucrative market after eradicating foot and mouth disease.

But this is not as lucrative as "long runs" , printer-speak for running off hundreds of thousands of identical copies.

Herbal medicines are the most lucrative form of traditional medicine, generating billions of dollars in revenue.

It held on to its lucrative but diminishing dial-up business and only dismantled the wall around its content in 2006.

Maybe you derive pleasure from a hobby that you can turn into a lucrative enterprise.

The following photographs depict this complicated, contentious, and often lucrative history of a superpower and its Asian allies and foes.

Maybe you derive pleasure from a hobby that you can turn into a lucrative enterprise.

But even a tiny sliver of the nation's giant population could be a lucrative new market for a luxury name.

He doesn't mean to be rude, but he has made a lucrative career out of it.

That may be less lucrative than it hoped for, but do not shed any tears for Cheng Yu-tung, the firm's billionaire boss.

After all, corporations make up archrival Microsoft's traditional customer base and a potentially lucrative new revenue stream for Google.

The first tumor developed: Whether the head of what kind of tumor types, all with lucrative full suitable, about the shape, color symmetry.

Certification in any of these areas can give a student lucrative career opportunities in the corporate and governmental worlds.

The result has been a colossal and also lucrative carry trade, with both welcome and unwanted consequences.

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

If they do not act swiftly, Satyam's rivals may pick up its most lucrative customers and its best employees.

Lucrative bonuses and international travel were once the main attractions for prospective employees, but companies no longer mention glitz.

If investors line up for RenRen's shares, high valuations and all, it could pave the way for an obscenely lucrative Facebook offering.

Until two years ago, Mr. Jenkins ran a lucrative group at Barclays known as structured capital markets.

This is especially the case for regions that are home to well-developed and lucrative counterfeiting industries, he said.

In the US one of the most influential and lucrative professions is law, a field in which writing skills are indispensable.

With that money he set up a photo studio, establishing a lucrative sideline selling silver extracted from film developing.

The recession, however, has hurt what used to be a lucrative hobby.

They hoped that as revenue from voice calls levelled off, the new networks would open up a lucrative new data-services market.

Many have found that, when natural resources are scarce and consumers are cash-strapped, greenery can be a lucrative business strategy.

But it's tough for part-time bloggers with full-time jobs to keep up with all the demands of a lucrative blog.

The perfume business is proving to be a very lucrative option for Hollywood celebrities.

Some total in the tens of millions of dollars, making for a vast and lucrative market for a few specialized agents.

Haggis producers across Scotland are hopeful that the plan will be successful, as they regard the US as a potentially lucrative market.

He is too old to be sold for mutton, but a new career in marketing may now lie ahead - promoting New Zealand's lucrative trade in wool.

Investment banks will battle for the lucrative advisory roles and are likely to be interviewed next month.

Once reshaped, the CDS market will be a bit duller and a lot less lucrative.

Nokia has struggled to produce a lucrative rival to the iPhone.

Chelsea are keen to reward the powerful midfielder with a lucrative new contract as reward for his fine form this season.

Sidwell, though, has some tough choices to make if he does opt for a lucrative move to the Bridge.

Yet recent declines in the population of these essential insects threaten the lucrative agricultural industry.

Second, business schools have not effectively marketed management PhDs as a credential that leads to a lucrative career.

In any case, China isn't the only place where the clone business is lucrative. It's also alive and well in Europe and other places.

The followers of microblogs can sometimes prove to be a lucrative - and easily persuaded - audience.

All countries, the developed countries in particular, have reaped lucrative benefits from investment in and service trade with China.

Such disruptions may cut spam but will not put the lucrative phoney pharmacies out of business.

Barclays has already muttered about decamping from London if it is stripped of Barclays Capital, its lucrative trading arm.

You can look for promotions inside your company, or you may look elsewhere to find better benefits and a more lucrative salary.

Probably programming will not be as lucrative on the new basis as it is now.

It was the fastest growing and most lucrative area of most banks' entire bond trading operations.

The TD-SCMA contracts promise to be some of the most lucrative in the sector, sparking fierce competition among equipment suppliers.

And a wider ban could shrink BlackBerry sales in a small but lucrative and fast-growing market.

Yet Chelsea are hoping to tempt him back to the capital with a more lucrative wage package.

The company has doubled its profits since plugging into lucrative overseas markets.

He had been linked with lucrative playing contracts in England and Australia, but seems set to begin his managerial career early.

In addition, using food crops meant that farmers found a more lucrative market for their crops.

Breakfast has the potential to be very lucrative, says Sara Senatore of Bernstein, a research firm, because the margins can be high.

King Kev will try to tempt Evans to St James' Park with a lucrative deal to keep him away from Wearside.

Peter Sunde, Pirate Bay's former spokesperson, has also entered the lucrative speakers' circuit, acquiring his own agent.

It was only in April 2010 that HP bought Palm for $1. 2 billion in an attempt to enter the lucrative business for mobile devices.

Human rights in Iran have always been the victim of lucrative trade deals between Iran and the Western governments.

The IOC is now a financially robust organization, having reinforced its position as a key player in the lucrative world of sport.

Our company decided to go abroad for more lucrative business ventures.

It risked the loss of its licence and began to lose lucrative contracts.

Hyundai Motor plans to roll out hybrid cars as part of an overall global push into the increasingly lucrative green auto market.

If he stays at the firm, hell get lucrative bonuses, stock options and commissions. It finances a fabulous lifestyle.

For instance, John Paulson, a hedge-fund boss known for his lucrative bet against the housing market, will soon offer a UCITS III product.

While many Chinese are taking advantage of the lucrative side of the season, others are searching for the meaning of Christmas.

Our company decided to go abroad for more lucrative business venture.

Moreover, most production is now offshore where the state has far less lucrative terms.

But in a strong market, it makes the businesses that can operate freely all the more lucrative and valuable.

It is more lucrative to send her to slaughter and replace her. Her body will be sold as ground beef.

Over the years, China has been vying for a bigger slice of the lucrative satellite-launch market.

One person can operate. Lucrative. I use raw materials produced by the company to spend Baomi unique taste.

China has banned foreign investment into its lucrative online games industry in an effort to tighten control over its virtual worlds.

Credit Suisse First Boston won the lucrative mandate to underwrite the offering, and its right to share in fees of $150m.

IS IT a worrying invasion of privacy for web surfers, or a lucrative new business model for online advertising?

The deal will clear the way for Ladbrokes to begin targeting the lucrative US market with its online betting and gaming products.

That should be good for the litigants, even if it is less lucrative for the lawyers.

Space activity has produced valuable inventions such as global positioning devices that have had lucrative commercial applications.

Investments may not be as lucrative as you thought.

Nasdaq along with rival New York Stock Exchange are looking increasingly eastwards as they seek to grow their lucrative listings businesses.

From the lenders' perspective, writing off a few bad ID-theft debts is cheaper than losing the lucrative "impulse buyer" market.

Its members are also thought to resent the fact that they are excluded from lucrative UN peacekeeping missions, unlike regular soldiers.

The operation followed months of undercover police work that gathered evidence of an extraordinarily lucrative empire.

But there's no sign the company will be barred from accepting lucrative US government contracts.

Opportunity abounds in a city emerging from the swamps, its growth fueled by the violent power struggle in a lucrative drugs trade.

Few would have predicted that shark fishing could cause the collapse of a lucrative scallop fishery.

Prove yourself, however, and an often extremely lucrative job as a crab fisherman could eventually be yours.

The Explorers' Guild Headquarters increases the movement speed of those trained here notably, and opens a lucrative trade route to India.

Already, investors are gearing up for what they believe will be a lucrative market in small planes.

Many Chinese mainland psychiatrists still subscribe to the old, lucrative opinion that sexual orientation is a matter of choice.

He says jatropha could be a lucrative alternative to tobacco, Malawi's agricultural mainstay and principal source of foreign exchange.

The contest is fierce, because search results, which display highly targeted advertisements, are the most lucrative pages on the internet.

We had the housing bubble and the credit default. The commodities market is another lucrative playing field [where] traders take a fee.

Regardless of which, Irish theme bars are lucrative businesses that are very popular with drinkers from a wide range of cultures.

The phenomenon would later be demarkated as "spam" and revered as one of the most lucrative and controversial trends in Internet history.

The plan is being prepared at a time when China has been edging out India for some lucrative African contracts.

To associate themselves with a push for democracy would endanger lucrative contracts on the mainland.

He has such an eye for lucrative business opportunities! All of his projects are money-spinners.

Women made more cautious financial decisions: They were more likely to forgo lucrative opportunities so they could avoid risks and losses.

Retailer 1-800-Flowers. com has Cupid to thank for making Valentine's Day one of its most lucrative days of the year.

These products are a positive start but it remains a Herculean task to recapture this lucrative market from Apple and Android.

Farmers abandoned the land for more lucrative employment in the booming construction industry.

Many go on to open lucrative private practices.

The drug gangs would still be left with more lucrative cocaine and methamphetamines. But it would become easier to defeat them.

These gaming and gambling applications are projected to be quite lucrative, generating billions of dollars for their respective industries.

They are in need of a relatively inexpensive big man, and Wallace just had his lucrative contract bought out by the Suns.

For a lucky few with good turnround skills, such bargain businesses may turn into lucrative opportunities.

It's now up to the TV companies to tap into this huge and lucrative market.

"That indicates a very, very lucrative opportunity, " says Jonathan Ha, Shanghai-based director of advisory services at Z-Ben Advisors.

You think you can make some money writing copy, but how exactly do you get those lucrative writing jobs you read so much about?

Mobile phone business is one of the lucrative sectors these days.

I graduated from college with honors, have a lucrative job with a stable company, and have lots of friends and a wonderful girlfriend.

Russia is one of the largest suppliers of natural resources, such as oil and gas, while China is a very lucrative market for Russia.

A variety of reasons have led me to choose this occupation over other more lucrative ones.

As our client is an education start-up, this particular position is not particularly lucrative.

Upriver lies the Grasberg mining complex, one of the biggest and most lucrative gold and copper mines in the world.

Increased use of prenuptial agreements sounds as though it means yet more lucrative work for lawyers.

Playing a competitive fixture could be even more lucrative and it was this which arguably led to the idea being mooted in the first place.

Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers.

Urbanization in Europe saw many French and Italian agricultural workers leave silk growing for more lucrative factory work.

Lucrative land deals are thought to be at the centre of this wealth.

The movie business can be very lucrative.

Humpbacks form the backbone of a lucrative whale-watching industry in Australia and New Zealand.

Ramdev already is a well-known public figure in India, presiding over a lucrative empire of yoga-related media and food items.

But observers are not expecting the countries' lucrative customs posts to be dismantled.

However, the French group now faces the difficult task of asserting control over the lucrative but troubled joint venture.

Most trade publishers, keen to embrace a potentially lucrative revenue stream, are expanding their digital programmes significantly.

Bankers who worked on some of the year's most lucrative deals are upbeat about their bonus prospects.

Market Realities: A mature process will not generate a market; a bad process will not destroy a lucrative market.

Hammond's goal was to illustrate just how lucrative the opportunities in emerging markets are.

The unsustainable collection of turtles for food and to supply a lucrative pet trade are the key drivers behind the fall in numbers.

This is now compounded by the interest of many generals to maintain their grip on very lucrative business empires'.

Even with a more modest capital base of $10 billion, Istikhlaf will stand a reasonable chance of picking up lucrative finance deals.

With the country's soaring real estate prices, property has become a lucrative asset and is frequently contested in divorce cases.

Let patients spend every penny in the lucrative, treatment, patients can be completely transparent about the whole situation.

At 26 he signed up with the Navy, turning down offers to stay on at Oxford and a lucrative consulting job.

Regional papers rely instead on a steady but less lucrative flow of government ads.

This poses a huge investment challenge for the banks, because lending should be their most lucrative business.

Miss Lee's case is not unusual, it is typical of thousands of young teachers who are quitting their jobs in search of more lucrative work.

Buffon is the club's most lucrative asset and his sale would allow the Bianconeri to fund their ambitious reconstruction plans.

For this young man, the riots were a lucrative business venture.

Those top Tories who made lucrative second-home claims on properties in spitting distance of their first homes are similarly bespattered.

Her contacts in China helped her bag a number of lucrative share sales for her employers.

Of course, the naming scheme lends itself to a potentially lucrative trade in special editions.

Those studying less lucrative subjects would have to pay more, or be subsidised more.

Small banks were able to win lucrative advisory mandates and hire talented bankers from their dazed rivals.

Foreign students are lucrative for universities; restricting family reunions might seem inhumane, or even violate human-rights law.

It was the crown commodity in the lucrative feather trade.

However, before you part with your cash, you want to know which warrants are lucrative.

As the trade has grown less risky and more lucrative, it has attracted some middle-class women seeking quick tax-free income.

The BBC is cutting costs and re-examining the embarrassingly lucrative contracts of some of its stars.

Currently the product Chengzhao dealers across the country, new products lucrative, fruitful trade and fruitful life!

Britain also took tighter control over the increasingly lucrative oilfields.

"Sometimes I miss my old army days. . . times were simpler then, " laments Minister Cai, the gatekeeper to lucrative government contracts.

The Blues are keen to keep Lampard and are planning to offer him a lucrative contract extension.

Ore is loaded on supertanker-sized ships at this company port before making the lucrative journey to China and its steel mills.

Working with just one industry can be a lucrative approach for many freelancers.

This means that the price of TLDs would also drop, sending the cybersquatters in search of more lucrative profession.

If you are out of work, it looks like it will be easy for you to find a lucrative freelance position that pays well.

The earthquake that struck northern Italy affected production of the lucrative cheese industry.

The once lucrative high yield market went virtually silent as investors shied away from risky credit instruments.

Microsoft and Yahoo! are a distant second and third in the lucrative business of web search and related advertising.

The killing of the lucrative tabloid was intended to bury the scandal that threatened this extraordinary power base.

Paris is celebrated for its art and architecture, but traffic and pollution problems threaten its image and lucrative tourism industry.

But retailers in America are already in a festive mood: the month before Christmas is forecast to be an especially lucrative period.

Designer jeans in the $200-$300 price bracket have found a lucrative niche market in China, but Levi's classic basic jeans do less well.

Global clients represent more lucrative relationships for consultancies and the last decade has seen increasing focus on them as a result.

lucrative targeted adverts on the individual's screen, depending on what Internet pages they have recently been looking at.