Mr. Putin became his external affairs aide, charged with recruiting foreign companies and promoting business.

When the exchange first began recruiting companies to join and soliciting environmental groups for endorsements, several of those groups started to have reservations.

But we're aggressively trying to recruit new high-tech companies.

Both camps have been waging a battle on three continents since last year, trying to recruit other companies to their sides.

Mr. Julius, a volunteer who works on recruiting companies into the program, was using the computer to keep track of his contacts with company officials.

"This focus is important whether recruiting employees, companies or tourists."

It was a market opportunity that we seized and used to recruit companies and physicians.

I'd recruit and train companies of the bravest explorers to go into the unknown world.

They claim he planned to recruit companies as clients by hacking them and showing how vulnerable their systems were to other hackers.

But Nasdaq has had a difficult time recruiting Japanese companies.