ConocoPhillips has shown little willingness, or ability, to take on the complicated work of forging political connections required to make such deals work, let alone putting up its share of capital to get the next phase going.
FORBES: ConocoPhillips To Flee Kazakhstan With $5 Billion Sale
In 1972 Sydney Brenner, a biologist then at Cambridge University, decided to work out the connections of every cell in the nervous system of a small nematode worm called C. elegans.
The Liverpool Tate gallery has mounted an exhibition devoted to the form, drawing hitherto unsuspected connections between it and the work of artists like David Hockney and Andy Warhol (about whom Mr. Bowie wrote a song).
WSJ: Keeping It Glam | 'Glam! 21st Century Factory' at Tate Liverpool
"A lot of my work in the first few years was facilitating connections for the spending of Hours, " says Glover.
The long-term unemployed take longer to find work, because their skills and job connections erode and employers tend to be sceptical of their abilities and work habits.
ECONOMIST: America's labour market: Something's not working | The
If you're running for president, you generally follow two basic courses of action to fund your campaign: either work your connections at the grass-roots level, or dive straight in to the rivers of cash that flow through places like Manhattan and Los Angeles.
This simple idea, which eliminates the tedium of searching for connections by hand, seems to work.
The report and now the work of the IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections Higher Speed Ethernet Consensus group ultimately will help more quickly yield more meaningful IEEE 802.3 Ethernet wireline standards.
LinkedIn, by contrast, instantly shows me which of my friends work at Forbes and people who have connections to others who work here.
Online retail sales have boomed as more people get high-speed internet connections and time-pressed shoppers take advantage of shopping from home or work, according to industry observers.
More recent work has shown that the formation of microgyria throws the pattern of neural connections between the language centres and the rest of the brain into confusion.
When the time came to do so, the Pentagon could then make connections between countless data points that, in the past, would have taken years of intelligence work to put together.
FORBES: Author of Book on Bin Laden Raid Says Tech, Social Media are Key Elements of Story
Yet there is clearly a huge opportunity, given the gap between the quality of Internet access most Americans enjoy at work (through high-speed direct connections) and at home (through a copper telephone wire).
Having personal connections and camaraderie is one of the highlights of managing others, and when you lose that, work can be a slog.
Therefore, if a label has good physical distribution internationally, it should first try to work through its own network of distributors, provided they have the necessary experience and the right connections with their national digital service providers.
应用推荐