According to the National Restaurant Association,

According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, the industry trade body, more than 450, 000 businesses transacted $ 10 billion globally in 2008 – and officials expect trade volume to grow by 15 % in 2009.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

According to the American Bar Association, a lawyer that is a certified specialist has been recognized by an independent professional certifying organization as having an enhanced level of skill and expertise, as well as substantial involvement in an established legal specialty.

According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, " The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc.

According to the International Franchise Association approximately 4 % of all businesses in the United States are franchisee-worked.

In comparison, scheduled flights operate from around 560 airports in the U. S. According to the U. S. Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, general aviation provides more than one percent of the United States ' GDP, accounting for 1. 3 million jobs in professional services and manufacturing.

According to the American Psychological Association ( APA ), there are numerous theories about the origins of a person's sexual orientation, but some believe that " sexual orientation is most likely the result of a complex interaction of environmental, cognitive and biological factors ," and that genetic factors play a " significant role " in determining a person's sexuality.

According to a statement of proceedings published elsewhere in the same edition of the BMJ, the report was officially ‘ approved at last week ’ s Council meeting of the British Medical Association .’ ( BMA Council Proceedings, BMJ, April 23, 1955: 1019 ).

According to the Austin Hockey Association, the word puck is derived from the Scottish Gaelic word " puc " or the Irish word " poc ," meaning to poke, punch or deliver a blow.

According to the International Lesbian and Gay Association ( ILGA ) seven countries still retain capital punishment for homosexual behavior: Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Led Zeppelin are the fourth-highest-selling music act in the US and one of only three acts to earn four or more Diamond albums.

According to Terry Pluto's book, Loose Balls, Downey was one of the owners of the New Orleans Buccaneers basketball team in the American Basketball Association in the late 1960s.

According to the Christian Business Association, the New International Version has become the most popular selling English translation of the Bible, having sold more than 215 million copies worldwide.

According to the data of the China Bicycle Association, a government-chartered industry group, in 2004 China's manufacturers sold 7. 5 million electric bicycles nationwide, which was almost twice 2003 sales ; domestic sales reached 10 million in 2005, and 16 to 18 million in 2006.

According to the Soil Association, the total copper that can be applied to organic land is 6 kg / ha / year.

According to the Parapsychological Association, parapsychologists do not study all paranormal phenomena, nor are they concerned with astrology, UFOs, Bigfoot, paganism, vampires, alchemy, or witchcraft.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, personality traits are " enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts.

According to a 1996 statement from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, although heredity influences behavior in individuals, it does not affect the ability of a population to function in any social setting, all peoples " possess equal biological ability to assimilate any human culture " and " racist political doctrines find no foundation in scientific knowledge concerning modern or past human populations.

According to the Scotch Whisky Association, allowing non-Scotch whisky production in Scotland would make it difficult to protect Scotch whisky as a distinctive product.

According to the Scotch Whisky Association, Scotch whisky evolved from a Scottish drink called uisge beatha, which means " lively water " or " water of life ".

According to the 2008 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations claimed 214, 738 members in 2002.

According to the Louisiana Historical Association, he named some African Americans to federal positions, such as Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans, Louisiana, whom he named comptroller of customs.

According to The American Political Science Association, over the past 2004 presidential election, the women's vote may have well decided the outcome of the race.

According to the U. S. National Fire Protection Association, candles are one of the leading sources of residential fires in the U. S. with almost 10 % of civilian injuries and 6 % of civilian fatalities from fire attributed to candles.

According to John Lichfield in a 14 July 2009 interview published in the Independent, she was working on an autobiography and had hoped to have a first draft by September 2009.

According to the UK Independent Media Centre, " round 150 different events included critical mass bike rides, occupations, and mass demonstrations in Brighton, Manchester, Glasgow and London and many other places.

According to the Complete University Guide published by The Independent, Bath has 23 out of 26 subjects placed within the top 10 in the UK.

According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Ireland, the average daily circulation, of the Irish Independent was down to 125, 986 for the period January to June 2012 ..

According to a critical analysis in The Independent, the genre rose to prominence in the 1990s not as a continuance of the celebration of " sex and shopping reflected the materialism of the 1980s ", but as a signal of " disillusionment with those values ".

According to Gaiman, the studio " may still be New Line, but Warner Independent is keen on it too.

According to Peter Popham of The Independent: " Everybody here has long believed that Prodi's Ouija board tale was no more than an ill-advised and bizarre way to conceal the identity of his true source, probably a person from Bologna's seething far-left underground whom he was pledged to protect.

According to his obituary in The Independent, " in recent years Estelle cut a slightly sorry figure, dressed in his ' Lofty ' outfit, setting out a stall of his tapes and singing to passers-by in shopping centres.

According to the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, the establishment of the Philippine Independent Church or the Aglipayan Church was his major turning point but Manalo remained uninterested since its doctrines were mainly Catholic.

According to historian Paul Kleppner, the origin of the Greenback Party is to be found in the state of Indiana, where early in 1873 a group of reform-minded farmers and political activists declared themselves free of the established parties and established themselves as the Independent Party.

According to Independent Charities, of the 1, 000, 000 charities operating in the United States today, it is estimated that fewer than 50, 000, or 5 percent, meet or exceed these standards, and, of those, fewer than 2, 000 have been awarded this Seal.

According to a 1998 report issued by the US State Department, the Independent State of Croatia treasury was illicitly transferred to the IOR and several banks after the end of World War II.

According to The Independent, support for free speech was far higher than expected.

According to The Independent journalist Patrick Cockburn, " cooperation between Mr Basayev and the Russian army is not so surprising as it sounds.

According to Thomas Young, chairman of the Mars Program Independent Assessment Team, the program " was under funded by at least 30 %.

According to the Irish Independent, eight subsidiaries of Quinn Insurance provided guarantees of € 1. 2bn to cover Quinn Group ’ s debts, prompting the regulator to seek the appointment of provisional administrators in the High Court.

According to author Craig Werner, as quoted in the British newspaper The Independent, the " anti-disco movement represented an unholy alliance of funkateers and feminists, progressives and puritans, rockers and reactionaries.

According to The Independent on 13 November 2010, in his role as Agriculture minister James Paice scrapped improvements to laws on animal welfare made by the previous Labour government, delaying by five years a ban on millions of hens having parts of their beaks sliced off.

According to The Independent, " rows, however innocuous some of them seemed at the time, have become a trademark under Bragg: among the most notable have been Ben Elton vs Brenda Maddox, Rosie Boycott and Bragg vs novelist Kathy Lette, Armistead Maupin vs Libby Purves, and Bragg himself vs ( separately ) Joan Smith, Michael Dobbs, William Cash, Tony Parsons and Jean Aitchison.

According to the Pennsic Independent, a privately-published newspaper published on-site, the final count for 2009 was 10, 947.

According to the findings of the Independent Investigator that was appointed by the government following the 2008 Liserosis outbreak, there were 75 confirmed cases of listeriosis and was also the underlying or contributing cause of death for 22 of these individuals.

According to the Irish Independent, Barry O ' Callaghan is a large personal customer of Anglo Irish Bank.

According to the Irish Independent, eight subsidiaries of Quinn Insurance provided guarantees of € 1. 2bn to cover Quinn Group's debts, prompting the regulator to seek the appointment of provisional administrators in the High Court.

According to the President of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia Yuri Savenko, Nekipelov's book is a highly dramatic humane document, a fair story about the nest of Soviet punitive psychiatry, a mirror that psychiatrists always need to look into.