At a stroke, 3Com could provide the credibility and access to customers that matter in America, as well as helping to bind in Siemens's recent data-networking acquisitions, such as Argon and Redstone Communications.
However, before the alarm can be sounded in this way, proteins on the surface of the antigen-presenting cell and the T cell must bind together in what is called a cellular handshake.
Deloitte's best hope for getting out of its bind lies in a rapprochement between policymakers.
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That put parents in a bind, and children in danger.
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Alert to this risk, Facebook has been rolling out new features such as Timeline, which encourages users to load their life histories onto the social network, to bind them in more tightly.
The lack of progress has led a number of Baltic countries to consider technological interventions, or so-called "geoengineering" ideas (large-scale solutions to environmental problems), such as pumping oxygen into the water, and using chemicals to bind pollutants in sediments, in a bid to save the Baltic.
"They've really put people in a bind, " adds Troy Onink, a certified college planning specialist in Russell, Pa.
Those likes are the ties that bind the information in Facebook together.
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He surmised that if he could duplicate the hooks and loops with other materials, he could bind them together in a similar fashion.
One reason for the poor productivity performance is the endless delays in the massive programme designed to introduce electronic patient records across the NHS. The investment was supposed to transform care by providing a seamless network of patient information that would bind together care in GP practices and hospitals.
It certainly might have placed their lawsuit in a bind had one of their subsidiaries voted the very technology they were challenging as best in show at CES. But that probably should have been addressed prior to the Consumer Electronics Show and certainly prior to the CNET vote.
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This explosion of interest puts venture capital firms in somewhat of a bind, creating more competition for stakes in potentially disruptive companies that could grow to become huge powers on their own or high valued targets for the larger players in their spaces.
They said many organisations were "caught in a double bind" - facing spiralling debt if they stay in the scheme or having to meet "enormous buy-out debts" in order to withdraw from it.
This puts the Administration in a further logical bind, as the policy is clearly grounded in the notion that monetary incentives work: make a desirable thing free, and people will demand more of it.
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The administration is in a diplomatic bind on the Egyptian issue, however, because it wants to promote political openness but also maintain stability in the longtime ally and safeguard Cairo's relations with Israel.
The new China-Russia partnership aims to bind the two countries in the energy field.
This puts retirees in a bind as money market rates are too low to live on.
These plans will have little practical impact beyond leaving the Tories in a bind.
The new nanoparticle can bind to specific cells in the lungs inducing a rapid reduction in inflammation.
But they felt in a bind, because critics had derided the initial July stress tests as too weak.
If it were to get to the Supreme Court, the justices there would be caught in a bind.
Developing countries are particularly in a bind because they aren't aware of how significant the problem can be.
That puts many who signed the pledge in a bind, which might explain the current do nothing Congress.
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The developer was in a bind, unsure how to proceed with the game.
American companies with junky debt coming due this year are in a bind.
That means Dunkin' Donuts, which has about 480 store locations throughout the five boroughs, would be in a bind.
However, the Bryant case shows how these two developments can work against each other, leaving the accusers in a bind.
That puts the FDA in a bind, but it's also bad for the doctors who do a lot of this consulting.
But governments and airlines in Europe and elsewhere are in a bind.
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