" In addition, CNPC will receive an undisclosed amount of funding and will use those funds to repay an unspecified amount of "borrowings" (the underlying activities which these borrowings funded is also unknown), and to "fund the employee retraining and severance plans established in connection with the restructuring of the CNPC group.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

If the Germans had established the family connection, he would have been sent to Colditz, with other prominent allied prisoners.

ECONOMIST: British military history: Paterfamilias Monty | The

Too bad they didn't incorporate a standard driver set for these things, so when you plug in your device, you must already have a connection established in order to get the proper drivers.

ENGADGET: Gear Eye: MSN TV 2

Instead of using menus on a screen to establish wireless connections, users will be able to simply hold a smartphone against another device (a wireless-equipped digital television, for example) and within moments a secure Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection is established between the two.

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By the 1990s, the connection was well established, and work began on vaccines.

ECONOMIST: The 2008 Nobel science prizes

And I believe that hip-hop can be used as a tool to connect us, and the emotional connection that we established in just a day or just two days was just phenomenal.

NPR: Hip Hop Takes on Diplomatic Role with State Department

The connection with wealth is well established (see chart again) but that is different: it has been forged over decades, even centuries.

ECONOMIST: Economics and the rule of law

We also had examined the operations and track records of the few existing emerging and minority managers-of-managers and established a due diligence system specifically designed for use in connection with emerging managers.

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Devon and Cornwall Police said the full circumstances surrounding how the fire started had still to be established, but added that no-one was being sought in connection with it.

BBC: Honiton fire families remember 'beautiful babies'

The connection between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease is by now so well established that inflammatory markers like CRP, while they may prove useful to test and treat, will not take the place of cholesterol any time soon, says Alan Daugherty, PhD, the director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Kentucky.

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