However, London, whose economy is heavily geared towards the financial services sector, was the only region in the survey to experience a rise in sale instructions.
Intelligence officials in the United States and European diplomats said documents from Libya and Iran showed the Khan network had offered for sale instructions on such tricky manufacturing steps as purifying uranium, casting it into a nuclear core and making the explosives that compress the core and set off a chain reaction.
They had each paid $199.99 to attend a Telephone Prospecting Boot Camp led by David Fischer, who owns a Sandler Training sales-instruction franchise.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said the number of inquiries, agreed sales and new instructions all declined in December.
Even at the undergraduate level of business instruction, sales courses are sparse.
I said he must be a sailor, and he replied that, no, he'd never been on a boat before he'd made this one, adding that he'd found a book at a stoop sale which had instructions for how to build a model boat, and thought that it would be fun to try to build a full-sized boat using it as a guide.
Silapathiharam a Tamil literature from 2nd century AD, refers to the sale of Silamabam instructions, weapons and equipment to foreign traders.
Mr. Bittar, the jewelry designer, issues an entire set of instructions to sales clerks to help guide men like Mr. Pfab.
About a week later, he wrote to his brother about his arrest and with instructions for sales of his 1971 book, "Steal This Book".
Without special instructions, customer sales information in the online service of Salesforce.com can be moved to private accounts at Box.
