Buyers usually pay in cash, as borrowing from local banks is difficult, agents said.
Raiola, who also looks after Mario Balotelli, has a reputation as one of the more difficult agents in the business, but his broken relationship with Ferguson is no longer of great consequence now the former manager has little say, even as a director, in the running of the club.
Many people think the only way to begin is to get an agent, but this is really difficult, because agents don't look at most applications without a brilliant recommendation, etc, etc, and their slush pile is ten years old.
But the mobility and murky associations of the groups, most of which were operating before the Sept. 11 attacks, makes it difficult for agents to monitor their communications or follow their money.
"That will put pressure on insurance companies to reduce commissions, making it more difficult for agents and brokers to perform the valuable services they now provide consumers," Mrs. Trautwein said.
As soon as antibiotics were discovered and developed for medical use, bacteria began the Darwinian "arms race" that has been fought ever since, with pathogens developing resistance to antibiotics, necessitating continual development of new types of medications and increasingly difficult infect agents arising with increasing regularity.
If there were a language barrier that made communication with a traveller more difficult, the agent could also request a translation by saying, "OK, Glass: how do you say, 'Please give me your baggage tag' in Japanese?" Even at the airline gate, smart glasses could improve the customer experience.
For example, performing a morally desirable action might be difficult for an agent because of an agent's idiosyncratic deficits in non-moral cognition.
Isolation of the Q fever agent by laboratory workers is difficult because the agent has a high infectivity rate, it is cumbersome in in vitro culture conditions, and handling it requires rigorous compliance requirements.
It's very difficult for my agents.
Weapons experts note that investigations into charges of chemical warfare can at times prove difficult because nerve agents can resemble other chemicals, notably insecticides.
