The business, which involved hard liquor only, was deadly dull.
Sony/ATV will administer EMI's business, which involves processing royalties and making licensing deals.
There may well be something parasitic, pathological about the business, which involves peering unapologetically into other people's medicine cabinets.
The Canadian suspicion about Mr. Almalki seems to have come from his business, which involved exporting common, and in some cases obsolete, electronic components to Pakistan.
It gets 70percentt of its earnings from its securities processing business, which involves record-keeping and acting as a custodian for stockholders and mutual fund investors.
It's a pared-down production, dispensing with the Rosalind subplot and the kind of hokey stage business which involves street vendors suspiciously biting coins.
Jack is called in to help them manage the business, which involves connecting eager consumers with obliging providers and taking a cut of the proceeds.
G.E.'s industrial business, Mr. Winoker noted, is buffered from the cycles of big-ticket equipment orders by its services business, which involves maintaining, repairing and upgrading industrial products.
The company said it was taking these steps to focus on its electronic services business, which involves developing online operations and infrastructure systems for third-party manufacturers, vendors and distributors allowing them to conduct their business on the Web.
But finance companies, including commercial banks, will snare much of the spotlight because of the nature of their business, which involves trades, loans and other dealings on behalf of third parties.
Their hesitance is based on the complexity of Global Crossing's business, which involves selling capacity on a global fiber optic network to phone companies and large multinational concerns, and uncertainty over the outcome of investigations of its accounting by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the F.B.I.
