The government relaxed the rule in January, but by then economic gloom had settled over Malaysia, and anyone with cash to spare was holding it as tightly as they could.
Had we regulated the electronics industry as tightly as the medical industry, then much of the diagnostic and informatic equipment that we now take for granted would not have been invented here.
Public doctors explained to me that while they are ethically (and legally) bound to afford themselves adequate time to give their patients an accurate diagnosis, there is far more money to be made by packing the daily patient list as tightly as possible and offering additional time later to those who can pay.
This contrast shows the extent to which battle lines on compensation remain as tightly drawn as ever.
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This underlines the most crucial point for policymakers: America's and Europe's economic fortunes are as tightly bound as ever.
It's a combination as tightly coupled as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: wherever economic growth leads, greenhouse gas emissions must follow.
On the other hand, they are not as tightly integrated as one would expect, nor is the portfolio as rich as some other contenders.
With some new material, but still keeping their act as tightly polished as they did in the heats last year, it's not too hard to see why they won.
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Said differently, General Dynamics is run by the numbers as a portfolio of loosely connected businesses, rather than as a tightly integrated enterprise.
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In general, as people cling ever more tightly to markers of elite status as a ticket to success, their actual cultural cachet is declining, due to everything from the atomizing forces of the Internet to the culture war and political gridlock.
For Anastasia Griffith, the world of "Copper" came to life as she was laced tightly into her corset, learning to breathe as her character, socialite Elizabeth Haverford, would breathe.
Donatelli is right, inasmuch as big data centers and the cloud are creating worlds where networking, storage and servers are so tightly coupled as to be in some ways indistinguishable from each other.
Naima gripped my hand tightly as we went deeper into the maze of neon-lit corridors.
We defined public schools tightly as those listed in 1971 as such, leaving out schools that have gone independent since.
Aubrey McClendon no longer grips Chesapeake Energy quite as tightly.
We may think, for example, of Boston, which ranks fifth in the world in per capita GDP, as a tightly packed urban area.
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Joan Cusack offers fine support as the tightly wound principal.
The man widely credited as the architect of Putin's tightly controlled political system, Vladislav Surkov, abruptly quit his post as Russia's deputy prime minister.
John Kestner and David Carr created Twine, a 2.5 inch-square device with on-board temperature and vibration sensors, as well as an expansion connector for other sensors, such as moisture sensors and magnetic switches, all tightly integrated through WiFi with a cloud-based service.
"Rather than manage mainframe and Unix separately, this allows you to manage them more tightly and closely as if they were one, " says Adkins.
Hasbro ( HAS - news - people ) accomplish this by viewing their external relations as strategic partners tightly integrated with their domestic operations or overseas subsidiaries.
There are references to favourite parables from the New Testament, and advice on keeping a tightly controlled diary as well as ensuring access to quality bathrooms (because constant jet travel plays havoc with the bowels).
He first waved away Villa appeals when Seyi Olofinjana appeared to bundle Agbonlahor to the ground, but seconds later was pointing to the spot at the other end, after Delap was clipped by Laursen as he turned tightly.
Without access to such a database, roboticists fear machines will be restricted to working in very tightly controlled environments such as production lines and never live easily alongside humans.
Mr Allen said the study was based on flawed statistics as it included a tightly drawn boundary for Nottingham compared to other cities where suburbs and parkland were included.
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Without being overly literal or stilted, he manages to preserve the vitality of the original poem (reproduced on the left-hand pages), as well as its alliteration and tightly packed richness.
American corporations and government agencies are more integrated into the Internet than their counterparts in North Korea, where most of the country has access to only a tightly controlled Intranet known as Kwangmyong.
The magazine is getting set to launch and create its third issue on July 29, with the planned theme kept tightly under wraps, as per previous iterations, until the contribution countdown clock starts ticking.
As part of a tightly integrated solution, Optify customers can now view, track and analyze all of their online marketing and email campaign results in one place on a dashboard built on top of ExactTarget.
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Universities such as the University of Phoenix, DeVry University, and Capella University have been tightly integrated, proprietary, and highly successful as the early leaders in the field of online learning.
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