Internal linkages connect the ruddervator to the control sticks in the cockpit, while the lower assembly linkages are connected to computer-controlled servos.
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Strong Linkages with Group: CSCI has close operational linkages with its parent companies and strong legal ties - through financing agreements - with the group.
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Strong Linkages with the Group: CSCI has close operational linkages with its parent companies and strong legal ties in the financing agreements within the group.
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Linkages with CKHH: CKI's Long-Term IDR incorporates a one-notch uplift on account of operating and strategic linkages with its parent, CKHH, which holds 75.67% of CKI.
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The grant to linkAges was for testing a new project connected to the program; it was not meant to help linkAges expand across other areas of the country.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Strong Linkages with Parent: STATS's ratings are based on the consolidated credit profile of JCET, given the strong operational and strategic linkages between the two entities.
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Fitch views the operational and strategic linkages as moderately strong given the extensive operational oversight, while the legal linkages are weak given the lack of any guarantees provided to existing debtholders.
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"We see trade tensions spilling over via direct linkages such as trade, commodities and tourism, and indirect linkages such as tighter financial conditions weakening private sector sentiment and spending," Morgan Stanley said.
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Fitch views the operational and strategic linkages are moderately strong given the operational and strategic business oversight while the legal linkages are weak given the lack of any guarantees provided to existing debtholders.
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Our purpose was to point to the commonalities and linkages.
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"We didn't claim also that there were linkages," he said.
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Outside of China, the country's economic linkages continue to propagate.
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Linkages of these modules would constitute larger and larger quantum machines.
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But on the other hand, the linkages aren't all that strong.
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Singapore, meanwhile, is "viable" but has weak political linkages, he said.
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Financial health information, corporate linkages and company history are also absent.
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Judge Poe also understands the clear linkages to U.S. national security.
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What he's worried about is hardware: untested linkages in digital bridges.
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What might be done to waylay any further evidence of linkages?
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The linkages held even when the researchers drilled down to individual days.
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But if experience and political linkages are politically toxic, we've got problems.
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With reason on both sides, there will be progress and stronger linkages.
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Both governments make public the suspected linkages of cases, anonymized by numbers.
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Given the linkages between them, companies and banks often run into trouble concurrently.
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SKB's ratings and Outlook reflect the strong operational and strategic linkages with SKT.
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Other economic linkages via Georgia intend to bring more energy security to Europe.
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It is gratifying to see how past barriers can be converted into linkages.
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One-Notch Parental Support: Greenland has moderately strong linkages with the Shanghai government.
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"The linkages between smoking and infant mortality and prematurity are real," Brown said.
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And these are just the financial linkages, which remain limited by China's capital controls.
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SMMF's National Ratings may be downgraded in the event of weakening linkages with SMMA.
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This reflects the strong operational and strategic linkages between the parent and the company.
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These new linkages also have the potential to reorder relations within and between countries.
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"All their linkages will be known only when they come and disclose," he said.
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How do you trace the linkages between misogyny and these varied campaigns and stories?
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The result is a patchwork of regional linkages and a harsh truth: The result is a patchwork of regional linkages, and a half-dozen states running solo, running a year and counting behind on their goal of sea-to-shining-sea interoperability.
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Parental Support: We believe there are strong operating and strategic linkages between AUTO and Astra.
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ASEAN's close trade and financial linkages with China pose another potential risk to the banks.
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Traditionally, we've seen linkages between the degree of labor and product market slack and inflation.
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This is counterbalanced by its strong domestic funding franchise, which is underpinned by state linkages.
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Negative action would be likely if Bluestar's legal, operational and strategic linkages with ChemChina weaken.
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The Stable Outlook reflects Fitch's expectation that CSCI will maintain strong linkages with its parents.
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He said insufficient attention had been paid to "macro distributional linkages," not "macro distributional influences."
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Change triggers new thinking, improved approaches, and incorporation of new parameters into visionary partnership linkages.
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Fitch views MIF as a strategically important subsidiary of Maybank Indonesia because of their strong linkages.
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This was particularly true of China, which has strong trade linkages with Japan, the researchers said.
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This is counterbalanced by its strong domestic funding franchise, which is underpinned by its state linkages.
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Fitch has not linked Tahoe's ratings to the parent's because linkages between the two are weak.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. intensified its business linkages with Asia to counter Soviet interests.
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Blockchain also posed important challenges in terms of linkages across markets, governance, privacy and risk creation.
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It then presents the linkages in colorful, easy-to-interpret graphics that look like spider webs.
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" Jeff Brock told me, "The piano is this almost baroque machine, with mechanical linkages and hammers.
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The Stable Outlook reflects Fitch's expectation that CSCI will maintain strong linkages with its parent companies.
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CMB Leasing has strong linkages with its parent in terms of funding, customer referrals, and risk management.
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However, the ratings are based on Axtel's stand-alone credit profile given weak legal and strategic linkages.
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That's based on telltale iconography, naming patterns, webs of linkages and the breadth of the postelection scrubbing.
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The foreign policies of Turkey and Qatar established direct linkages with Islamist groups during this turbulent period.
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The rub here is how these language "regions and linkages," as one might put it, supposedly work.
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The possibility of support is reinforced by strong regulatory linkages between Australia and New Zealand banking authorities.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Shanghai Government Linkages Unchanged: SCGC has built more than half of Shanghai's key projects.
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Expanding the Central Asian linkages with lands to the west should be a priority of American engagement.
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It is the scientific and technological infrastructure and its linkages to the rest of the economy that matters.
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And most of these state tax provisions for higher education result from linkages to the federal tax code.
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The country is one of the top 73 exporters in the world with significant trade linkages to China.
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Most recently, the partial government shutdown put the linkages between states and the federal budget into stark relief.
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Entire supply chains — expansive linkages of parts for factory goods — have formed across Asia, Latin America and Europe.
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"If these military missions are buttressed by economic linkages including arms sales so much the better," said Layton.
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Her research seeks to inform policies that address migration and displacement, and especially the linkages to climate change.
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As a consequence Fitch may reassess the parent and subsidiary linkages of CTL as these issues become more permanent.
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Synapses, the chemical or electrical linkages in the brain connecting neurons to other neurons, have a very useful property.
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The amount and complexity of the "real" linkages in the existing global supply chains "trump" over public relations pressures.
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And never underestimate the 80-plus organisations who carry the name Commonwealth for a variety of linkages and benefits.
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The affirmation of the ratings reflects Fitch's view that support from and linkages with the banks' parents remain unchanged.
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Every once in a while, relationship charts reveal not just linkages but aspects of things that are positively piquant.
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BAY is a key part of the parent's strategy for south-east Asia, with significant marketing and operational linkages.
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That done, it lets the rules of physics play out, with the qubits' states and linkages evolving over time.
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SMRP BV's rating reflects strong linkages with its shareholders, Motherson Sumi Systems Limited (MSSL) and Samvardhana Motherson International Limited (SMIL).
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By understanding and proving these linkages, the company is able to help raise awareness and consciously combat these subconscious biases.
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For example, the cryptographic linkages that secure entries in a block, known as Merkle trees, were first proposed in 1979.
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You get all these new connections that temporarily are formed in the brain, new linkages while you're on the drug.
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If a civilian company offers possible linkages to military companies, then the espionage leadership is likely to pursue those leads.
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Which does open the door to problematic data linkages down the line, and all sorts of unintended dots being joined.
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Fitch believes these linkages give Ciputra Development strong control over its subsidiaries and therefore they operate as a single entity.
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To some, the answer is to look inward, to somehow unwind these linkages, to close borders and retreat into protectionism.
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This recognises the investment bank's linkages to the Chinese sovereign but lower systemic importance against China's largest state-owned banks.
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Dialog and its parent have moderate linkages, which include sharing key management personnel, a common brand name and common creditors.
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Policy topics feature complicated linkages across subject areas that lead to inherent conflicts in the perspectives of different government agencies.
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He added that they have preliminary data that suggests the stable chemical linkages that Dr. Delmer had wanted to see.
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"To our knowledge, that's the first time that's ever been observed," Neal Sharma, POST's wildlife linkages program manager told CNN.
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"Linkages through the banking system tie Italy closely to its European partners," said Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg bank.
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Interconnectedness between the domestic banks is relatively low, and their exposure to banks established abroad is mostly limited to intragroup linkages.
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Understanding all the linkages and dependencies in such a system is a huge challenge; so far, Mr Musk has met it.
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Fitch views BAY as a strategically important subsidiary of BTMU, with high levels of management control, marketing linkages and operational integration.
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This is a big deal because, as the brain imagery shows, the brain starts to form new linkages and new connections.
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This time, it will make linkages between finance and economic activity a major component, with at least two articles citing Minsky.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Ooredoo's Support Drives Ratings: Indosat Ooredoo's IDRs are underpinned by the strong legal and strategic linkages with Ooredoo.
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For example, the Roman Empire achieved immense growth through the linkages of business rather than the marching of legions and warfare.
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According to Fitch's Parent and Subsidiary Rating Methodology, there are strong operating and strategic linkages between Ciputra Residence and Ciputra Development.
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As it's tilted from side to side by the rider leaning, mechanical linkages transfer those motions to the chair's front steering wheels.
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But what I think is wrong to do is to conflate immigration, crime and terrorism, because those linkages are not that strong.
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So, in-, we just talked about the-, the Greater Bay Area, in terms of the bridge, and high-speed rail linkages, right?
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The affirmation of the National Long-Term Ratings reflects Fitch's view that support from and linkages with the banks' parents remain unchanged.
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While accessing legal and safe abortion services may seem very different from preventing or treating HIV, profound linkages bind the two struggles.
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The strong legal and operational linkages have led us to base Ciputra Residence's National Long-Term Rating on its parent's consolidated profile.
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Government Ties Remain Intact: Huayi's ratings continue to include a two-notch uplift to reflect its moderate linkages with the Shanghai municipality.
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Fitch believes that further rapprochement over the rating horizon is unlikely, but existing economic and trade linkages will continue to operate uninterrupted.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES IDRS on CICC and CICCHK A rating downgrade could result from a weakening in linkages between CICC and Central Huijin.
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"I have confidence that Pompeo understands this and will do it because I think he understands the political linkages better," he said.
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Finally, the economic, scientific, and cultural linkages with the United States are far stronger than with any other region in the world.
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These linkages between archival footage and the family's present-day are ultimately what make the film so transcendent yet down-to-earth.
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After dozens of indictments and filings, there is much that has been disclosed by the special counsel on Russian linkages and contacts.
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Letters (and their potential linkages) are the core elements in these games, but ultimately the words determine a player's success or failure.
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Low interest rates pose a challenge to medium-term profitability and vulnerabilities stem from concentration risk or linkages to other Nordic financial markets.
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Financial linkages now account for about two-fifths of the correlations between China and other Asian markets, up from virtually nothing before 2008.
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Huayi's ratings benefits from a two-notch uplift from its standalone credit profile of 'BB' to reflect moderate linkages with the Shanghai municipality.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES An upgrade of Indonesia's sovereign ratings would trigger a rating upgrade, provided the linkages between IIGF and the state remain strong.
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Any weakening of linkages between the group and TML, or the group's inability to provide support is likely to affect the ratings negatively.
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The UK accounts for about 17% of total Irish goods and services.. Long-standing financial and investment linkages could also be at risk.
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Not only do the lawyers bring a name-brand recognition to the televised proceedings, they also carry the Clinton linkages the president adores.
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The Noche Flamenca version isn't strict about the linkages, and it isn't a danced play, but the mutability of desire is nevertheless evoked.
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And UNESCO designated the region as a World Heritage site due to its exceptional natural beauty, ecological significance, and intricate linkages of Sherpa culture.
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Armed with this data, the scientists identified connections between T. gondii infection and the altered linkages associated with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, epilepsy, and certain cancers.
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It is unclear whether the central bank sees BAM as a key long-term shareholding and the shape of future state linkages remains uncertain.
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If, for example, linkages are used to deny services or vary pricing to certain types or blocks of customers, is that legal or ethical?
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They like to also live in this world where they have much more linkages with a variety of players that did not exist before.
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It is unclear whether the central bank sees BAM as a key long-term shareholding and the shape of future state linkages remains unclear.
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In illuminating the linkages among a cast of notable figures and institutions, Poirier brings this complex world to life, showing surprising and intimate connections.
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Health Linkages uses a combination of blockchain and big data to enable healthcare and life science institutions to trust, protect and share their data.
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Instead, Dr. Natalio's team could just be picking up signatures of their molecules hanging out in the cells, but not forming long-term linkages.
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Being aware of the color somehow makes the city's bindings and conduits and linkages stand out as if they'd been injected with radioactive dye.
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It marked the first consumer application of drive-by-wire technology, in which software, not mechanical linkages, makes a machine turn, accelerate, and stop.
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On one hand, in an interconnected global economy, troubles in one place can spread easily, whether through financial markets, the banking system or trade linkages.
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"Trade and financial cross-border linkages bind our economies together," New York Fed President William Dudley told a conference on global monetary policy and capital.
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The SR of DFCC has been affirmed at '4' to reflect its moderate size and systemic significance and linkages with the sovereign through indirect ownership.
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Fitch views MIF as a strategically important subsidiary of PT Bank Maybank Indonesia Tbk (Maybank Indonesia; BBB/AAA(idn)/Stable), because of their strong linkages.
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Fitch does not see a change in the strong linkages between the two companies, even though Kia's financial statements are no longer consolidated into HMC's.
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Here, the end-of-the-world date in question is April 2019, when one of the key linkages between Manhattan and Brooklyn will shut down.
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Any weakening of linkages between the group and TML, or deterioration in the group's ability to provide support is likely to affect the ratings negatively.
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Such linkages stem from commonality in shareholding and board structure among the group companies, which Fitch believes afford Ciputra Development strong control of its subsidiaries.
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Germany earns 22017 percent of its GDP by exporting goods to Italy while linkages through the banking system tie Italy closely to its European partners.
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CCF's ratings may be downgraded if there is any weakening in the linkages between CCF and its parent, including CCF's reduced importance within the group.
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But the China-Russia-North Korea-Iran linkages may be even more ominous and will require the sustained attention of America's military and political leaders.
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The VR captures its thin capitalisation and weak asset quality, which are counterbalanced by its strong domestic funding franchise that is underpinned by its state linkages.
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DTAC's ratings incorporate a one-notch uplift from the linkages with its parent, Telenor ASA of Norway, which has strong board and management control of DTAC.
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BAIC Group's rating incorporates a three-notch uplift from its standalone credit profile of 'BB+', reflecting strong operational and strategic linkages with the Beijing Municipal Government.
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Fitch now analyses Ciputra Development and its subsidiaries as a single economic entity because we believe the legal and operational linkages between the entities are strong.
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Aside from the reiteration of closer strategic ties between the states, other issues discussed during Xi's visit included the deepening of economic linkages and security concerns.
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S. trade tensions, and Qualcomm-NXP merger clearance, there are "perceived linkages" and the timing of current discussions is "not coincidental," two of the sources said.
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Asciano, the country's largest ports and rail operator, fits with Beijing's ambition to expand transportation linkages across a region it sees key to its economic growth.
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Developments That May, Individually or Collectively, Lead to Negative Rating Action - Downgrade of Singtel's standalone ratings or a weakening of the linkages between Singtel and Optus.
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Greek dance linkages are a constant theme; men and women touch, turn around one other, form interwoven groups (echoes of Balanchine's "Serenade" and "Apollo") and lines.
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One performer can now do what it sometimes took four to do in the 1980s, operating animatronics not with mechanical linkages but with a Wii controller.
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Strong Linkage: The ratings of SMART, IMT, and SMS are equalised with the credit profile of GAR, reflecting the strong strategic and operating linkages to GAR.
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The announcement says each potential recipient should "optimally" offer primary health services onsite or have robust referral linkages to primary health-care providers in close proximity.
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A Brazilian version would draw on linkages between about 150 civil society groups who worked closely over the last year to oppose Bolsonaro's campaign, he said.
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While doing that, explicit trade and political linkages must be avoided to keep a firm focus on a prompt and steady rebalancing of bilateral trade flows.
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S. trade tensions and Qualcomm-NXP merger clearance, there are "perceived linkages" and the timing of current discussions is "not coincidental", two of the sources said.
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The populist dimensions of his candidacy suggest that linkages to popular support and invocations of the silent majority will continue to be part of the rhetorical strategy.
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There may be more trade linkages between Central and Eastern Europe and the U.K. but even then, the large core European markets like Germany are more important.
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How Elliptic's technology works involves tracing transactions via the public Bitcoin ledger in order to be able to connect different entities by creating a template of linkages.
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But InfoSum does essentially appear to be heading down the platform route of offloading responsibility for ethical considerations — in its case around dataset linkages — to its customers.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Linkage with Telkom: Finnet's rating benefits from a one-notch uplift due to linkages with Telkom, which indirectly holds a 60% of the company.
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Disruption to trade between the US and China could also have consequences across the rest of the Asia-Pacific, given the linkages embedded in regional supply chains.
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But the tight linkages between energy companies and governments meant that if change was to come, it would only come as a result of strong public policies.
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"We got rid of all the mechanical linkages that change the pitch of the blades and replaced them with electric wires," Bell program manager Eric Sinusas said.
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If the situation continue to get worse, and that result in some investors reduce their investment in emerging market, then, such negative linkages may produce amplification effects.
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Average Recovery Prospects Due to the strong linkages between TF, Tereos and TI, the senior unsecured notes rating is derived from the consolidated group's IDR of 'BB'.
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Trends in Hong Kong's credit profile will continue to track those in China, due to its tightening political, economic and financial linkages with the mainland, Moody's said.
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"I don't think that just having repatriation at a lower tax rate will have any linkages to investment in communities left behind or job creation," Khanna added.
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Substituting a depth of conversation and interaction with the world for Spector's focus on simulation, Disco Elysium is based around the fundamental linkages between things in the world.
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"If you look at the scale of the attacks, the level of coordination, the sophistication of them, it's not implausible to think there are foreign linkages," Teplitz said.
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But it meant Teoh and his peers had to design a complex series of linkages that connects each of the device's 12 panels back to the central motor.
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Infrastructure for parks and recreation fares barely any better—with a C-minus at a time when burgeoning amounts of research show strong linkages between nature and health.
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Market Position Unchanged: CSCECL's market position and its leadership in different construction segments have remained unchanged and continue to be supported by its linkages to China's central government.
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The Zika outbreak was declared an international public health emergency by the World Health Organization in 2016 due to linkages found between the virus and severe birth defects.
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"Many of these marriages do not last, and we have now seen cases where there are direct and indirect linkages to trafficking," Rahatkar told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"In just four months, we have gone from a market of unusually close linkages across markets, to one with unusually divergent returns," Morgan Stanley said in a note.
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We assess GCX's IDR based on its standalone profile under our Parent and Subsidiary Rating Linkage criteria, due to weak legal, operational and strategic linkages with its parent.
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We rate GCX's IDR based on its standalone profile under our Parent and Subsidiary Rating Linkage methodology due to weak legal, operational and strategic linkages with its parent.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Rating Linked to Parents: The rating action reflects Fitch's assessment of the credit profile of CSCI's parents and the company's strong linkages with its parents.
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Authorities will face infrastructure challenges and environmental risks including climate change in each of the three cities, and will need to build efficient linkages between them, he said.
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"With the strengthening of economic and financial linkages between Japan and China, Japanese financial institutions have been expanding their renminbi-based businesses," the BOJ said in a statement.
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The European Commission chief spoke as British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, in a Brexit policy speech in London, denounced Europe's attempts at ever-closer linkages of its member countries.
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BTMU holds 76.9% of BAY and the Thai bank plays a key role in the parent's strategy for south-east Asia, with high levels of integration and marketing linkages.
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"The move also demonstrates that some Japanese buyers are keen on spreading the price risk associated with LNG by diversifying price linkages to a variety of fuels," he said.
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Europe, and Germany in particular, have very strong trade linkages to Asian markets, and specifically with China, said Mazen Issa, senior FX strategist at TD Securities in New York.
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"I don't know if that's ever been observed before," said Neal Sharma, who manages wildlife linkages at Peninsula Open Space Trust, the conservation organization that set up the wildlife camera.
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While Chinese and Indian buyers are likely to be open to pricing LNG deals without linkages to crude, it's unlikely that a coal-linked contract would be front of mind.
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Financial linkages may be part of the story, but one also suspects that there is psychological contagion: Good or bad news in one major economy affects animal spirits in others.
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And it looks like over the last decade or two, the strength of the linkages between labor market tightness and wage and price inflation has become much more muted relationship.
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We do not think that a potential transaction would have any impact on AIS's ratings unless it were to lead to stronger operational and strategic linkages between AIS and Singtel.
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"This is one of our more significant fintech co-operation agreements, given the extensive financial and trade linkages between Singapore and Hong Kong," Ravi Menon, managing director of MAS, said.
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"I am particularly worried about contagion from stress coming from the European banks and whether there might be linkages — perhaps indirect — between them and the largest UK banks," Kashyap wrote.
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CKI's rating reflects its standalone credit profile of 'BBB+' and a one-notch uplift on account of its linkages with its largest shareholder, CK Hutchison Holdings Limited (CKHH, A-/Stable).
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DERIVATION SUMMARY CKI's Long-Term IDR incorporates a one-notch uplift on account of linkages with its parent, CK Hutchison Holdings Limited (CKHH, A-/Stable) which holds 75.67% of CKI.
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Taiwanese authorities, for example, have pointed out linkages between anonymized cases, including family clusters, in an effort to warn the public how easily the virus is transmitted within households. Prof.
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These linkages, flowing through our communities, under our highways, bubbling up in the livestock allotments of our public lands or pulsing within renewable energy development zones, are not easily replaced.
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To accomplish this, policies can be ex ante, like limiting envelopment or re-evaluating merger criteria, or they can be ex post, such as limiting data linkages and stricter privacy oversight.
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A sudden increase in the dividend payout ratio, should GNW's credit profile deteriorate, may also cause Fitch to place greater reliance on group linkages, which could cause a negative rating action.
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Fitch could change this approach, and place greater reliance on group linkages, if we believed deterioration in the credit profile of GNW could result in a weakening of GMA's credit profile.
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Other countries, such as India, Indonesia and the Philippines, which run current account deficits and are vulnerable to global risk aversion and Fed rate hikes, can suffer via financial market linkages.
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These groups include the Allied Democratic Forces (with possible linkages to the Islamic State) and local Mai Mai militias, says Stephen Morrison, SVP at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES The main factors that could lead to negative action, individually or collectively, include a: - A severe economic shock from China, in light of the close economic and financial linkages.
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But today's ADL report is the first effort to formally quantify the anti-Semitic speech on Twitter and illustrate clear linkages to Trump and the "alt-right" movements that support him.
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"The Nordic and Baltic countries have common financial stability interests stemming from potential systemic inter-linkages between their respective countries, justifying enhanced cooperation and coordination in maintaining financial stability," they wrote.
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Radhika Rao, an economist at DBS Bank, said the outbreak was expected to take an economic toll on the region given its proximity and strong trade and production linkages with China.
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The researchers surmised that the vast expansion of certain gene families in the octopus, and the network of linkages among the genes, could account for the development of its neurological complexity.
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At the same time, it is interesting because ISIS does not have the same linkages to Pakistan that the Afghan Taliban had, even though ISIS includes many defectors from the Taliban.
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"Indian business leaders are concerned that China is building linkages around the world," Gaurav Dalmia, the chairman of the Indian conglomerate Dalmia Group, said in an interview before the panel talk.
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"We see little benefit of a piecemeal approach to debt restructuring, given the complex inter-linkages between the finance ministry, central bank and domestic banks," Morgan Stanley said in its analysis.
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"A number of assumptions and linkages underlying the way expected credit losses have been implemented to date may no longer hold in the current environment," the IASB said in a statement.
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Ratings Incorporate Implied TCCC Support: While the legal linkages between CCL and TCCC (which owns 29% of CCL) are weak, the operational and strategic relationship between the two companies is strong.
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In the move to value-based care, hospitals are strengthening linkages to each other, and to physicians, in an effort to improve quality and efficiency and to better coordinate patient care.
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We expect DFM to maintain moderate operational and strategic linkages with the central government as DFM is responsible for carrying out the central government's strategic objectives in developing the automotive industry.
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For example, Dr. Paul Tang of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation started a program called linkAges, a cross-generational service exchange inspired by the idea that everyone has something to offer.
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"We haven't yet identified any linkages between him, extremism, any extremist groups or anything to do with terrorism at this time," Shane Patton, Victoria's acting police commissioner, told reporters on Friday.
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There are millions of jobs right now in America that are not being filled because we haven't created the right linkages between our education system and jobs that are actually there.
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, one of the largest Philippine conglomerates, told CNBC it would be building on existing linkages it held with Chinese multinational Huawei.
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They don't expect the police to crack down as hard on them, they try to create linkages with ruling parties or parts of ruling parties, and overall encourages greater levels of mobilization.
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The extremely high probability of support is underpinned by BTMU Jakarta branch's linkages with its head office (BTMU) and by the growing importance of the Indonesian operations to BTMU's global growth strategy.
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"The linkages from political uncertainty to economic growth are never straightforward, but for now we are looking at a synchronised improvement in the macro outlook across the advanced countries," Mr. Coulton continued.
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Haunted and Whole Jesse Bandler Firestone's exhibition historicizes late queer artists and their communities lost during the AIDS crisis by tracing and revealing linkages between artists from the past and artists today.
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"We have not paid enough attention to macro distributional linkages," said Jonathan D. Ostry, deputy head of research at the International Monetary Fund, who has published groundbreaking research linking inequality and growth.
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After analyzing linkages between tens of millions of patents and science papers, exhaustive accounting shows that federal research increasingly fuels the innovation that ultimately leads to jobs, industrial competitiveness, and entrepreneurial success.
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The objects in the museum's African and Oceanic collection, and all their connections among different cultures, inspired Saar to travel across Africa, Asia, Europe, Brazil, Haiti, and Mexico to explore these cultural linkages.
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Idiosyncratic linkages, a few vials patterns and perhaps even narrative cohesiveness are apparent here and there, but the images do not 'admit'any interpretive insights into what sort of cultural history Darboven is providing.
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Isabel Rullán, a 20-something former migrant, who has returned to the island from Washington to try to improve linkages to the diaspora, estimates that half her university classmates are on the mainland.
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WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) - The impact of China's rebalancing toward consumption-led growth on the U.S. economy through financial linkages should not be underestimated, Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan said on Tuesday.
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"Part of our discussions are to explain to them [China Railway] how New Zealand works, and we talked to them about the fact that we've got good linkages with government agencies," Shephard said.
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BOC Aviation has consistently reported the highest pre-tax return on assets (ROA) and net spreads among aircraft lessor peers, supported in part by low funding costs due to its strong parent linkages.
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Engineers and scientists and artists are teaming up to solve real-world problems — protein folding, robotics, airbags — using the Demaines's mathematical origami designs for how to fold paper and linkages into different shapes.
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An Upshot article on Thursday about the health risks of social isolation misstated the purpose of a grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to a program, linkAges, dedicated to fighting the problem.
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Increasing political linkages are likely to weigh on Hong Kong's institutional strength, while the risks to China's economic and financial stability may also undermine Hong Kong's own economic and financial outlook, it added.
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"Looking ahead, financial stability risks could rise if retail participation significantly increased or linkages with the formal financial sector grew without material improvements in market integrity, anti-money laundering standards and cyber defenses."
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"In (Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus), after exiting the recession in 2016, the recovery is projected to gather pace in 2017, supported by improved outlook in Russia, given linkages through trade and remittances," it said.
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As West African women continue to seek work as gold miners, researchers and policymakers should seek to better understand and account for the linkages between land rights and artisanal mining as an emerging livelihood.
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"We do not believe that the credit standing of Hong Kong can be completely disconnected from that of the mainland, given financial and economic linkages, and the ultimate sovereign authority of China," it said.
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It was the result of a range of problems that had built up over time: light regulation of banks, overly complex credit products, tighter cross-border linkages and irrational exuberance in the housing market.
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"Hong Kong's economy is facing myriad headwinds, including an increasingly acute residential property price correction and significant linkages with the slowing Chinese economy," said Andrew Wood, head of Asia country risk at BCI research.
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ExxonMobil, for example, knew internally for decades that its products contribute to global warming, according to a peer-reviewed Harvard University study published last month, but publicly downplayed the linkages and the resulting risks.
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While some Hong Kongers are downbeat over what they see as the increasing reliance of Hong Kong on the mainland, others believe the closer financial linkages between the two could prove to be symbiotic.
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" Rancière interprets this to mean that "it is not in the linkages of the story that the fictional content is to be sought" but rather in "the milieu of meanings, the milieu of actions.
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Idiosyncratic linkages, a few visual patterns and perhaps even narrative cohesiveness are apparent here and there, but the images do not "admit" any interpretive insights into what sort of cultural history Darboven is providing.
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The use of an actor (Igor Vernik, speaking credible French and English as well as Russian) playing the auctioneer, Avedon and an apparatchik who reports Nureyev's defection, provides a dramatic fillip and smooth linkages.
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According to IHS, South Korean exports to Vietnam soared in the first two months of 2017, jumping 40 percent from a year ago, reflecting strong linkages between the electronics supply chain between the two countries.
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"Even countries that have few direct trade linkages with China are being affected through the Chinese slowdown's impact on prices of commodities and manufactured goods, and on global confidence and risk sentiment," the Fund said.
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"Any economic shock to China's colossal industrial and consumption engines will spread rapidly to other countries through the increased trade and financial linkages associated with globalization," said Stephen Innes, Asia Pacific market strategist at AxiCorp.
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DERIVATION SUMMARY DFG's rating is equalised to its parent DFM, which is based on a standalone rating of 'BBB+' plus a two-notch uplift reflecting DFM's moderate operational and strategic linkages with the central government.
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Fitch believes Pertamina will maintain its strong access to bank and bond markets given its state linkages, and that it will be able to meet its debt obligations in this period and obtain funding for expansion.
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And as the first U.S. President to visit the Arctic, he helped millions of Americans appreciate its beauty, recognize its long human history and understand the linkages between the Arctic's future and the planet's changing climate.
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Markets will be increasingly influenced by the sheer size of China's economy, more financial linkages, such as the listing of Chinese companies on international stock markets and the growth of the yuan's use in international transactions.
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The EBRD, which pumps in billions of euros into eastern Europe and Turkey each year, said 6.8 percent of the combined region's domestic value-added exports would be affected by any potential disruptions to trade linkages.
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One way to address this growing challenge would be for the ITC to require any petitioner to comprehensively demonstrate substantial linkages to U.S. domestic industry and harm to the U.S. economy before an investigation is launched.
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"Mattis said DOD has formed an ad hoc committee to assess the agency's relationship with air traffic control, delineate any linkages that would be necessary and "ensure privatization efforts going forward preserve our national security interests.
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He made a series of reckless, unconnected promises, not much longer than tweets, to get elected, and now he's just checking off each one, without thinking through the linkages among them or anticipating second-order effects.
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Mexico's trade linkages with the US are stronger than those of China, but the scenario sees some offsetting benefits from 15% peso depreciation and faster domestic labour force growth, as net migration to the US is reversed.
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ExxonMobil, for example, knew internally for decades that its products contribute to global warming, according to a peer-reviewed Harvard University study published last month, but publicly downplayed the linkages and the resulting risks (Exxon denies this).
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"With increasing evidence of linkages between Guillain-Barré syndrome and Zika virus infection, it is imperative to enhance Guillain-Barré syndrome surveillance," WHO researchers led by Nirmal Kandel said in a paper posted on the WHO website.
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" Goldman Sachs said in a statement that the fund "is designed to enhance commercial linkages and promote market access for U.S. firms in China and will seek to improve the balance of the U.S.-China trade relationship.
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American Apparel and Footwear Association "More than 200,000 jobs in our industry, and countless more across the United States, depend on strong trade linkages with Mexico," Rick Helfenbein, president and CEO of the AAFA, said in a statement.
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Strategic Importance to TSOL: TML's rating continues to benefit from a one notch uplift on account of the moderate linkages with its stronger shareholder Tata Sons Limited (TSOL), as defined in Fitch's Parent and Subsidiary Rating Linkage criteria.
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We assess TML's linkages with its stronger shareholder TSOL to be moderate as defined in our criteria, driven by TML's strategic importance to TSOL, which is evident in the tangible support that TSOL has extended through equity injections.
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Negative: Developments that may, individually or collectively, lead to negative rating action include: - a lowering of Fitch's internal assessment of the creditworthiness of Beijing municipality; or - a weakening of Shougang's legal, operational and strategic linkages with Beijing municipality.
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President Obama has an extraordinary opportunity to right an historic and ongoing injustice while elevating the United States as a global example of the linkages between conservation and indigenous knowledge through establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument.
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"His refusal to fully divest himself from his business, the linkages between finances and the levers of power — those are the classic symptoms of kleptocracy," Seva Gunitsky, a University of Toronto scholar who studies post-Soviet states, says.
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The equalization reflects strong implicit and explicit factors including a high percentage of TMC sales financed by the subsidiaries, significant operational linkages between the companies and the existence of a credit support agreement between the parent and the subsidiaries.
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"Investors will likely learn the pitfalls of investing in a country with entrenched vested interests, from the clergy to the Revolutionary Guard, and surprising linkages between banks and companies that lead to some investments turning sour," the note said.
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They could also be affected by any perceived changes in the propensity of KBank or SCB to support their respective subsidiaries - for example, if there were a large reduction in shareholding or a reversal of marketing and management linkages.
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Under Fitch's approach to rating entities within a corporate group structure, DGL's IDR and those of its subsidiaries, DL and DIFL, are equal at 'B', based on a consolidated group credit profile, given the strong strategic and financial linkages.
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"Zimbabwe will also benefit from Commonwealth-linked development programs, for instance on youth skills development" and "use its membership as a platform to forge trade linkages with some of the world's fastest-growing economies such as India," he added.
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Consequently, the current debates in Washington focusing on the federal budget and health reform, among other areas, could have implications far beyond the Beltway, increasing the need for decision-makers at all levels to understand these federal-state linkages.
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But a more complete examination of Guccifer 2 (the Russian cyber persona responsible for the DNC hack), and the timing of the leaks shows linkages between WikiLeaks and the Russian government that have long been the subject of speculation.
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"Even after a state grew up around it, Uagadou would retain many of these linkages and connections (just as the UK Ministry of Magic retained its jurisdiction over Ireland after the Republic of Ireland declared its independence)," they conclude.
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"I am particularly worried about contagion from stress coming from the European banks and whether there might be linkages (perhaps indirect) between them and the largest UK banks," Anil Kashyap, a member of the BoE's Financial Policy Committee, said.
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"Everyone could then pursue new linkages in the terror network, leading to new captures, new discoveries of documents, computes, and the like ... if the answers pointed to new action, that would be relayed back to tacticians and fighters," he said.
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Foreign companies producing in that country did not have to buy Mexican inputs, so many businesses—like the maquiladoras in the textile and electronics industries—imported raw materials duty free and exported them again, generating few linkages with Mexican supply chains.
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"PNCC is looking forward to exploring with (San Miguel) the possible stretches, linkages and extensions that can be built from the tollroads of our existing joint venture companies," PNCC President and Chief Executive Officer Mario Espinosa said in the statement.
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"Credit linkages to the government of Saudi Arabia (A1 stable; A1 foreign currency ceiling) are significant, and result in our decision to constrain Aramco's rating to that of the government," Rehan Akbar, senior credit officer at Moody's, said in a note.
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"Increased attention on vaping over the past few months and linkages to a few deaths and multiple illnesses, have resulted in warnings from the FDA, federal government and some states banning the use of flavored e-cigarettes," the Prudential statement said.
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Stefan Hoops, global co-head of institutional client group, said with China's capital market and its linkages with global markets growing at a rapid pace the new position would help it tap the growing demand for products from institutional investors.
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In light of American energy independence, Saudi linkages to international terrorism, alignment of U.S. and Iranian counterterrorism objectives and a pro-American population in Iran, a fundamental re-evaluation of American equities and alliances in the Middle East is long overdue.
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Current projections of monetary losses seem to be derived from the impact of the 2003 SARS epidemic, scaled to changes in the size of China's economy, plus attempts to account for China's increased trade linkages and greater weight in world trade.
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BRI is rated one level below its 100%-owner, Baosteel Group, due to its strong linkages to the parent arising from its unique position as the group's only offshore resource development platform, overseas resources trading platform and offshore financing vehicle.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Strong Linkages with Parent: SIC is rated one notch down from 55.76% parent Sinochem Group, which is in turn rated two notches lower than China's sovereign ratings (A+/Stable) - in line with Fitch's parent and subsidiary rating criteria.
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This is what's behind, certainly as I understand it in listening to the transcript of Randall Stephenson from AT&T, which is they have more data than anybody on people, what they're going to purchase and linkages to what they buy.
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India's home ministry has told the Supreme Court that it had reports from security agencies and other authentic sources "indicating linkages of some of the unauthorized Rohingya immigrants with Pakistan-based terror organizations and similar organizations operating in other countries".
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"The Reserve Bank will continue to monitor the activity and performance of this sector with a focus on major entities and their inter-linkages with other sectors," he said, in a speech that was published on the RBI's website late on Saturday.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Positive: Future developments that could lead to positive rating action include: - Explicit guarantees from Qatar in favour of Ooredoo, which would likely result in positive rating action on Ooredoo's IDR, providing that the other parent-subsidiary linkages do not weaken.
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The study also showed a decrease of fewer than 10 basis points in the real income of German households from tariffs on the automotive sector even after taking into account cross-country production linkages, known as global value chains (GVC) in economic parlance.
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Even if the wish is for those linkages to be simpler and less costly, what is even more important is that the economic policies determined by the president and Congress reflect the intricacies of the worlds in which small business owners operate.
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"Hong Kong's economic and financial linkages with China also give rise to potential negative spillovers from China in case of a rise in financial stress and, ultimately weaker growth, as such developments could adversely affect Hong Kong's economy and financial sector," it said.
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One can take issue with how so many in the Arab world, and Anderson as their chronicler, make the linkages, but the article's insights into the anti-Americanism that is now so deeply ingrained are stunning and significant for the next U.S. administration.
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By doing the research in multiple locations where there are different levels of drinking water contamination, the apparent linkages between disease outcomes can be more clearly established, said Robert Laumbach, a Rutgers University researcher who is helping oversee one of the studies.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Positive: Developments that may, individually or collectively, lead to positive rating action include: - an upgrade of Fitch's internal assessment of the creditworthiness of the Beijing municipality; or - if Shougang's legal, operational and strategic linkages with the Beijing municipality are strengthened.
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This includes experiments in delivering care remotely through video linkages, targeting high-cost patients with holistic care management that addresses the clinical and social needs of patients, and expanding the use of specialists to supervise pain management among patients already addicted to opioids.
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Future developments that may, individually or collectively, lead to negative rating action include: - a lowering of Fitch's internal assessment of the creditworthiness of the Shanghai Municipality or evidence of a weakening of BFG's legal, operational and strategic linkages with the Shanghai Municipality.
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The gene variants related to being active could, for instance, also and separately play some kind of antidepressant role, Dr. Choi says, adding that the intertwined genetic and behavioral linkages between exercise and mental health will require many more studies to disentangle.
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More than a show of political art, Decolonize this Place transformed the gallery into a round-the-clock movement hub facilitating linkages between struggles including de-gentrification, global wage workers, Black liberation, Standing Rock, Puerto Rican debt-resistance, and Free Palestine, among others.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Rating Based on Consolidated Profile: Fitch analyses Ciputra Development and its subsidiaries as a single economic entity because of their strong intra-group legal and operational linkages that stem from a commonality in shareholding and board structure among the group companies.
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This recent trend in accelerated reductions in birth rates in the U.S. reminds us that generations are fundamentally linked to each other and that policymakers must be aware of these linkages before embarking on policy changes designed to influence only one demographic of our population.
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Thinking back just five years to Republican allegations that the IRS had gotten too close to the White House, it is surprising that the Trump administration — with the support of some in Congress — is considering increasing formal linkages between the IRS and the White House.
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While the 2014 Farm Bill included a local and regional procurement program that could be used to build sustainable farm to school linkages that would allow for peanuts to be purchased locally for use in school feeding programs, Congress has routinely underfunded this program.
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The increasingly complex processes of unraveling the corporate linkages of both the foreign investor and U.S. business, determining the sensitivity of a U.S. business' technology, and understanding how a U.S. company supports U.S. national security programs, are making staff findings harder and longer to prepare.
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"Even when they've been responsibly transmitted, once these data are out there, they're no longer in the custody of companies bound by regulations of any kind, and we don't know what linkages might be performed and where these data might ultimately end up," she says.
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"Increased attention on vaping over the past few months and linkages to a few deaths and multiple illnesses, have resulted in warnings from the FDA, federal government and some states banning the use of flavored e-cigarettes," a company spokesman said in an emailed statement.
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Key Rating Drivers Ratings Equalised With Parent: Fitch bases BTSC's National Long-Term Rating on the consolidated profile of its parent, BTS Group Holdings Public Company Limited (BTS Group, A(tha)/Stable), due to strong operating and strategic linkages, as per Fitch's Parent and Subsidiary Linkage criteria.
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The linkages among Antarctic sea ice, the surrounding atmosphere, and impacts for daily human life are much less understood than those in the Arctic, but one thing that is known is that melting of the Antarctic ice sheet would inevitably lead to a rise in ocean levels.
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Among other deep linkages, Hong Kong's port continues to handle a hefty share of China's exports and imports, and the city was also China's largest trade partner in services in 2018 with its market share of over 20% topping the US's 17%, China's Commerce Ministry says.
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Since the ratings of Leucadia and Jefferies are currently equalized due to the strong linkages between the two companies and the likely role Jefferies will play in Leucadia's future strategic direction, a change in Jefferies's ratings and/or Outlook would influence Leucadia's ratings and/or Outlook.
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Third, the U.S. needs to say unequivocally to our allies and foes in the Islamic world that our important military partnerships, economic linkages and the protection of U.S. interests are not in competition with our commitment to denounce authoritarianism and human rights violations around the world.
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To understand why groups affiliated with ISIS and Al Qaeda are popping up in that region of central Africa, you have to connect a lot of dots, and recognize the linkages between a number of different problems — not just say, in effect: There are bad guys there.
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"The HKMA's challenge in maintaining oversight standards and upholding anti-money laundering regulations should also be viewed in the context of Hong Kong's increasing economic and financial linkages with China, where corporate governance and transparency tend to be weaker than in Hong Kong," the ratings agency added.
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"The consistent relations we identified are of particular concern, given the long-term linkages between depression, anxiety, substance use, aggression, hostility, and poor academic performance and engagement with an individual's risk of illness or early death," lead author Aprile D. Benner, PhD, said in a statement shared with Refinery29.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Stronger Linkages to Tianjin: We have increased our assessment of Tewoo's strategic importance to Tianjin State-Owned Asset Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) in light of its dominant position in commodity trading and its role of maintaining Tianjin's status as northern China's largest trading hub.
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"We understand that you are exploring ways to prevent increases in Maryland state income taxes due to the linkages between the state and federal tax code, but we would like to know if you plan to protect Marylanders from higher federal taxes as well," the members of Congress wrote.
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"The main impact to emerging markets is not through direct economic or financial linkages but rather portfolio VaR [Value-at-Risk] shocks that could necessitate reducing risk, or hedging exposure, in other high beta, high yield fixed income exposures," said Jason Daw, Societe Generale's head of emerging market strategy.
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Today, by not joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, America is ceding ground to high-quality commercial rivals from Canada to Japan to Australia every single day — even before the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership goes into effect later this year that will further strengthen China's linkages across the region.
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These ratings remain equalized with those of GM reflecting Fitch's view that GMF remains core to GM's remaining operations based on actual and potential support provided to GMF from GM, an increasing percentage of GMF's earning assets related to GM, and strong financial and operational linkages between the companies.
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There's probably nothing to be lost in high-level meetings between our State Department and Russia's Foreign Ministry, but if Washington really wants to cooperate with Moscow it will need to create linkages to Russians who have different ideas on how their Internet should work than Vladimir Putin's.
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Fitch assesses the operating, financial and strategic linkages between SMRP BV and SMIL as strong and has based SMRP BV's IDR on SMIL's consolidated financial profile, which has been adjusted to include 100% of the businesses of MSSL and SMRP BV to take into account the large minority shareholders in MSSL.
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"We felt it was important to look at how extreme space weather may affect domestic US production in various economic sectors, including manufacturing, government and finance, as well as the potential economic loss in other nations owing to supply chain linkages," noted study co-author Edward Oughton in a statement.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Linkages to Samvardhana Motherson Group: Fitch analyses MSSL, its largest shareholder SMIL and their 212000:4807123 joint venture, SMRP BV, as a single economic entity because SMIL effectively controls more than 212001% of economic interest in the MSSL group and because of the companies' senior management overlap.
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Fitch assesses the operating, financial and strategic linkages between SMRP BV and SMIL as strong and has based SMRP BV's IDR on SMIL's consolidated financial profile, which has been adjusted to include 100% of the businesses of MSSL and SMRP BV to take into account the sizeable minority shareholders in MSSL.
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While it is a non-operational holding company and therefore dependent on the cash generation of its subsidiaries, its Long-Term IDR is based on Fitch's analysis of Ciputra Development and its subsidiaries as a single economic entity because we believe the legal and operational linkages between the entities are strong.
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Negative: Future developments that may, individually or collectively, lead to negative rating action include: - A negative rating action could follow a lowering of Fitch's internal assessment of the creditworthiness of the Shanghai Municipality, or upon evidence of a weakening of BFG's legal, operational and strategic linkages with the Shanghai Municipality.
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Negative: Developments that may, individually or collectively, lead to negative rating action include: - Weakening of linkages with Ooredoo LIQUIDITY Reliant on Refinancing: Fitch expects Indosat Ooredoo to partially refinance its short-term maturities of close to IDR8 trillion in 2017, given its unrestricted cash balance of IDR2 trillion at end-2016.
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Either they seek to restrain Iran and Russian support for it or they are making energy and investment deals by which billions of dollars flow to Moscow, allowing Russia to circumvent Western sanctions and create energy and financial linkages between these governments and Russia that inevitably are translated into political leverage.
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While the phone linkages may raise questions about why Bouhlel was not on the radar of counterterrorism services, analysts said it is not uncommon for the target of such investigations to be in touch with dozens or even hundreds of people by phone, many of whom may just be friends or casual acquaintances.
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A deterioration in cross-strait relations that was severe enough to significantly affect trade and investment linkages could therefore add to the challenges facing Taiwan's economy, which is already struggling with an ageing population, weak global demand, and declining export competitiveness as mainland China's domestic manufacturers continue to move up the value chain.
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In a report on Germany released this week, the IMF noted that the strong trade and financial linkages between Europe's largest economy and the UK had the potential to "derail the growth momentum" in a country whose success is central to lifting eurozone growth, and, in turn, helping the world economy grow faster.
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"The coronation will mark the history of a new era, and it will give us a chance to confirm to ourselves that we, the Thai people, and the Thai country, have a long history and long linkages between the monarchy and the people," said Thongthong Chandransu, an expert on the Thai royal family.
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While there may still be lingering uncertainties in the outlook for private-sector investments and trade from the effects of a Trump presidency, Standard Chartered Bank's Asia Chief Economist David Mann said he's less concerned than might have been a decade ago, given that Asia's economic linkages to the U.S. are now much weaker.
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Collaborative efforts between government and private citizens such as the Blackfoot Challenge and High Divide in southwestern Montana are showing how humans and grizzlies can coexist in the very places critical to linking Yellowstone to grizzly bear populations farther north — linkages that are essential for maintaining genetic diversity and fostering true grizzly bear recovery.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Ratings Linked to Parent: BRI is rated one notch below its parent, in line with Fitch's Parent and Subsidiary Rating Linkage criteria, due to the strong linkages between the two entities arising from BRI's unique position as the group's offshore resource-development platform, overseas resource trading platform and offshore financing vehicle.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Linkages to Samvardhana Motherson Group: Fitch analyses Motherson Sumi Systems Limited (MSSL), its largest shareholder Samvardhana Motherson International Limited (SMIL) and their 51:49 joint venture, SMRP BV, as a single economic entity, as SMIL effectively controls more than 13% of the economic interest in the MSSL group and because of the companies' senior management overlap.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Singtel Positive: There is limited upside potential for Singtel's rating in the short to medium term, although developments that may, individually or collectively, lead to positive rating action include: - FFO-adjusted net leverage falling below 1.0x (FY17: 2.2x), with positive post-dividend FCF on a sustained basis, provided the linkages with the state also remain unchanged.
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Even if Foxconn does relocate parts of the company from China to Taiwan, it will not amount to a decoupling from the Chinese market, said Lauren Dickey, an expert on China-Taiwan relations at CNA, a research firm in Arlington, Va. "The question, then, is whether these linkages become political risks or liabilities," Ms. Dickey said.
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"These residential schools were created for the purpose of separating aboriginal children from their families, in order to minimize and weaken family ties and cultural linkages, and to indoctrinate children into a new culture — the culture of the legally dominant Euro-Christian Canadian society, led by Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald," the commission reported.
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While it does not address the issue of SBIR set-asides, it does include reforms that would require agencies to prioritize commercialization potential in funding decisions, permit awardees to use a portion of awards for non-research activities that support commercialization, mandate data collection around companies' commercialization efforts, and strengthen linkages among awardees and the U.S. Patent Office.
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But, from another perspective, the red-on-yellow chain-link wall pattern generates a series of linkages that enable us to envision these seven works as station stops along the way to a genre of abstraction that retains its real-world baggage, so to speak, in quasi-pictorial terms — a vessel for distilling personal preoccupations and artistic influences into pure paint, impurely deployed.
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Negative: Developments that may, individually or collectively, lead to negative rating action include: - a lowering of Fitch's internal assessment of the creditworthiness of the Beijing municipality; or - a weakening of Shougang's legal, operational and strategic linkages with the Beijing municipality LIQUIDITY Comfortable Liquidity: As of end-13, Shougang's cash and equivalents stood at CNY26.9 billion and its unused facilities at CNY275 billion, compared with short-term debt of CNY131 billion.
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