the ties that bind us

... robustly self- reinforcing They are the social substratum of the reciprocity that fosters trust and tacit knowledge These ties do the work of coordination, but, again, at the price of closing the ... the operating units of the economy: first large, then small, district firms The distinction can be tenuous given that the latter are often suppliers to and must mesh with the structures of the ... complementary Homogeneous viewed from the outside, they are highly differentiated in their own view, with micro-specializations—the use of a particular kind of loom or lathe— that make most of their colleagues

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 23:06

... majordevelopments that affect the report’s principal themes and recom-mendations Trang 6Do the Ties Still Bind? The U.S.-ROK Security Relationship After 9/11iv The report should be of value to the U.S ... them from arising Trang 12Do the Ties Still Bind? The U.S.-ROK Security Relationship After 9/11x Adapting the security relationship to the new conditions will quire movement on a number of other ... 14is-Do the Ties Still Bind? The U.S.-ROK Security Relationship After 9/11xii • First, stay focused: The U.S has two overarching interests insofar as North Korea is concerned In the short term, the

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... threat to the system posed by the widespread use of VaR in financeland Now that the damage wrought by VaR was so inescapably obvious that lawmakers from the most powerful nation on the planet ... for the blood-constraining artifacts, as well as for those who tend to don them), the Lebanese-American let the world know that that was a very special day for him, so special that it amply justified ... conclude that we should rest easy, safe in the statistical knowledge that no nasty surprises await For instance, in the months prior to the kickstarting of the crisis in mid-2007, the VaR of the big

Ngày tải lên: 08/01/2020, 10:06

... with it.”And they eventually found each other again I asked them how theyhad endured these dark days They said that they had clung to theirFriday Shabbat meal, their religious ritual in their Jewish ... attorneys at the top of thepage The text begins with the acknowledgement by the parties—the customer and the automobile—of their “decision to marry eachother and to enter in this Agreement.” The prenuptial ... forever,”that they will work hard on their marriages in the coming months,and that they have strong supportive communities around them In the next two days, I could not escape other messages thatsuggest

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2020, 17:05

... was amplified using two primers that introduced EcoRI and BamHI sites at the ends of the Ku-80 gene The EcoRI site was used to generate the IR, and the BamHI site was used to ligate the Ku-80 IR ... homologous to the Ku proteins Immunoblot analysis and EMSAs showed that the MREa-binding proteins are immunologically related to the Ku proteins To study further the functional significance of these ... copperspecific pump that mediates the export of copper from the cytosol, similar to the P-type ATPase [14] On the basis of the fact that MREs mediate the transcriptional response of the MT gene to

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

... demonstrating that the LEDGF 361–370 unique binding site on IN participates in the IN tetramerization interface (C) INS uniquely binds the IN sequence that participates in the binding of the drug ... Table S3) showed that the effects of the various peptides on the Kd of the IN–DNA interaction correspond to the Km parameters obtained in the kinetics studies (Tables S1 and S2) The inhibitory ... the different peptides Structural analysis of the interaction of IN with the different peptides The sites in IN that mediate its binding to the various peptides were elucidated by screening the

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... running the com-pany when the Fed and the Treasury took charge of the bailout be-lieve that the severity of the terms imposed reflected the relish theFed and the Treasury took in taking revenge on the ... andinsistent demand that the monetary authorities step in with unlimitedquantities of financial assistance The response to the market meltdown helps illustrate the final twoprinciples that govern the modern ... scale.—pliny the younger, account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us It eluded us then, but that’s no

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 13:36

... appear plausible is the basic model that economists use for analyzing the labormarket The model assumes that employees are free to choose the number of hours that they work, andthat when they are ... example, in the analysis of whether rent control should be abolished, the “benefits” arethe consumer surpluses that the rich would gain and the “costs” are the consumer surpluses that thepoor would ... reducing the surplus of the other Point g is not on the frontier because if the families start at that point (Family G gets the apartment), then it is possible tomake both families better off at the

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 13:58

... include the following sections:Body of ReportUser Requirements- These are the functional requirements that our website must meet the needs of users:+ Reservation function: The website allows customers ... manner.+ Once the customer completes the payment, the website will provide a detailed receipt to the customer This receipt should include the customer's name, a list of items purchased, the total ... needs to be able to scale the system to accommodate the increased user load and scale the business in the future without compromising on performance.+ User Interface: The interface of Booking.com

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2024, 15:00

... free from errors, while the othergroups usually cause difficulties for the translators leading them to translation errors The focus of the analysis will be on meaning because "form is secondary ... about theerrors they encounter Therefore, I especially enjoy the topic.Trang 112 AIMS OF STUDYThe study covers the following aims: a To discover what language qualities the SL text of US F&A ... translation in the following statement "A translation must give the words of the original/ A translation must give the ideas of the original". It is noticed that understanding the original

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06

... 85 The Horse that Drew the Load 91 The Cellar Hole and the Sewer Hole 97 The Neighborhood of Your Advertising 103 The Mistake of the Big Steak 109 1–2 The Clock that Had no Hands Trang 33 The ... What the land needed was water In time there came farmers who knew that they could not expect the streams to come to them, and so they dug ditches and led the water to their properties from the ... lakes; they tilled the earth with their brains as well as their plows—they became rich through irrigation Advertising has made thousands of men rich, just because they recognized the possibilities

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... questions they hustled her to the captain's cabin and Trang 13me to the boiler-room They told the girl to take off her wet clothes andthrow them outside the door that they might be dried, and then ... and having found that only enemies ited the world for us, I ordered that the other engine be started so that inhab-we could move out of the path of the oncoming steamer The momentthe engine started ... during all that time For theseason—it was now the middle of June—the storm was unusual; but be-ing from southern California, I was accustomed to unusual weather Infact, I have discovered that the world

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... entrepreneur like his father, Walt lacked the strong business sense of his brother Roy, who was much savvier in the areas of business and finance Consequently, they closed their business after only ... building houses and reselling them, while his mother, a patient woman and former schoolteacher, supported her husband’s numerous business pursuits Walt was named after his father and the St Paul ... after six weeks on the job, along with Iwerks and others Nonetheless, he considered his time there worthwhile, learning numerous “tricks of the commercial [art] business.” In the interim, Walt

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:51

... swaps The duration of the swap contract is called the tenor of the swap In the above example the tenor is two years The two parties to the contract are called the counterparties, ... following the example, the counterparties are the pension plan and the investment bank The sequence of... has favoured the person holding the long position because they can buy the ... an average price based on the usage for the month The total consumption for a given region is the sum of the usage by the households and industries in that region This consumption

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... shot late in the afternoon of that first day In the middle of the morning, two hours after they had left thefarm, they had flushed the Cytha out of its bed in a thick ravine Butthere had been ... and that was the thing that counted For the moment, the vua crop was safe. He tucked the bandanna back into his pocket, went down the slopeand started up the knoll He reached the place where the ... searching for the slightest movement, for someshape or color that was not the shape or color of the bush or grass orground But there was nothing The heat droned in the hush of after-noon There was

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... a break-down ofthe receiving apparatus pat-Guarded messages passed among the high authorities of the nationsthat picked up the stuff A cautious inquiry went even to the Compubs.The Union of Communist ... whichwas averted by a warning they sent us Then, from their history-books,which we wrote for them, they learn how to make a transmitter to broad-cast back to us Then they tell us how to make a transmitter ... spoiled the ju-ju music of the most expensiveju-ju band on the air The interference ended only with a minor break-down in the transmitting station It was the same sort of interference thatthe Communications

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... Thhear-ings the newsboy shouted on the streets, thhear-ings the men talked about on the drugstore corner when they didn't see him coming And so he knew that this was the year 1960 and that the wars ... disregarded them He pretended he had never heard of them Others might discuss and worry over them if they wished To him they simply did not matter But there were two things tonight that did matter ... bric-a-brac; the pendulum clock that told the time of day as well as the day of the week and month; the elephant ash tray on the tabaret and, most important of all, the marine print Mr Chambers loved that

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... for the whole household, including the farmer's men down to the littlelad who scared the crows, all ate together in the big kitchen Mrs Lavender sat at the head of the table, thefarmer at the other ... supper-time.Robin Featherstone sat at the lower table; for the two tables made the only distinction between the family andthe household, who all ate together in the hall The next discovery was that she must never ... that people mustamuse themselves, or they would spend their leisure time in plotting treason! and the rulers having been what we should call Ritualists, they considered that the holiness of the

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... positive/active. • If not, they may slip from top half to the negative bottom haft of the grid (Negative inaction and negative/ active) • Read the case of Wal-Mart [...]... in work – Further discussion the case ... – If employee has positive emotion, other reasons should be considered and then focus on solution – If negative feeling is the cause, manager should fix that attitude first... motivators will ... – Don’t forget to let them catch their breath – The emotional foundations of team effort – Watch out for negative emotions • The importance of recognizing emotional frameworks – Using observational

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 02:20

... shove the clothes down one of the building’s laundry chutes She’d then stood at the top of the stairs and watched as Molly climbed down into the dank, spider-infested basement to retrieve them The ... through the noise of the wind, the sound of the engine “Yes!” Two cried, knuckles white against the hand-hold molded into the door Theroen stepped on the clutch, shifted rapidly, stomped again on the ... her, the opening of some heavy door, and then Theroen was there He looked paler still than he had the night before, and there were heavy bags under his eyes, but otherwise he was the same: the

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 06:21