Although the deal was small, it is significant in that it was the first acquisition made by a real-estate company owned and operated by nonprofits and illustrates how organizations with a social mission can use the for-profit structure to advance their goals.
San Diego is Pfizer's center for structure-based drug design, which uses computers to map disease-causing proteins and suggests ways to thwart them.
Section IV defines a 21st-century standard for a two-MRC force structure.
Ward Ferry's fund charges a management fee of 1.5% and takes 15% of profits as a performance fee-a typical fee structure for a hedge-fund.
"The landscape cried out for an 18th-century structure, " says Ms. Winter, who runs a nonprofit historic preservation group.
On the SLS Roadster, the supporting structure for the draught-stop is made as standard as a carbon sandwich structure.
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At a news conference, Inslee said federal officials were looking for a pre-fabricated structure to replace the 160-foot section that fell into the river.
The high-level executive hire came as Goldman announced a new management structure for the firm post-Paulson.
Notable here was the set-up of a three-tiered structure for programs on agricultural commodities like wheat, corn and grain.
Britain has opted for an airline-style pricing structure, which means it has the widest range of train ticket prices in the world.
The outdoor climbing frame, built by the army, is the largest man-made structure for apes in the world, and will encourage the chimpanzees' natural curiosity and intelligence.
CommonWealth's share price has underperformed the market, a fact analysts attribute to an acquisition spree and to its unusual management structure for real-estate investment trusts.
The question of determining the appropriate corporate legal structure for socially-oriented businesses is a common issue facing many other Ashoka Fellows and social entrepreneurs in general.
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Saito argued that the law of limited liability is not nearly as clearly delineated as in the U.S. This burden of shared risk inordinately skews the risk-reward structure for entrepreneurs in Japan.
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Then, I got to sit back and listen to them all brainstorm and debate until I had some long-term goals, structure for how to reach those goals and what I wanted most of all, a to-do list.
Clothing retailers--and most small businesses, for that matter--should choose an LLC structure.
Councillor Bryan Chalker - heritage champion of a city famed for Roman and Georgian architecture - said the 1920s structure was historically important.
In most other parts of the world, women are still raising their boys to expect the old-style contract in which, in return for bread-winning, they gain a support structure that keeps their children (and much else) at arm's length.
Dr Watson, co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the double-helical structure of DNA, was responsible for suggesting the human-genome project in the first place.
Today, there are 25 countries around the world that have adopted the REIT (or REIT-like) structure as a tax-efficient way for small investors to achieve the many benefits of owning an indirect interest in high-quality, well-located and professionally-managed income-producing real estate.
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The analysis in the speech he gave last night in Frankfurt, "Debt and deleveraging, long-term and short-term challenges", also implies that - on the basis of the eurozone's current rules and structure - it is rational for investors to charge more for lending to any eurozone government (even Germany's) than to governments such as those of the US or UK which have their own respective currencies and central banks.
The first is that this represents a big climbdown for the chancellor - which re-opens the entire question of the best structure for UK banking, and so creates a lot of new uncertainty for British banks.
Likewise, this legislation instituted a more consumer-friendly payment structure for personal credit cards while providing no such provisions for business credit cards.
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He called for a EU decision-making command structure, to be able to act rapidly and without the US and to take strategic decisions on Europe-only operations.
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Hayes said the original design for the structure included a radome -- short for radar dome -- but that was rejected because of anticipated servicing and maintenance difficulties.
We don't, at the moment, have a rational reimbursement structure for health care--you may pay more for a procedure at one location and the quality of care may not be higher.
Advertisers agreed to retain the existing system for network TV - which rewards actors each time their ad is shown - but insisted on an increased flat-rate pay structure for cable and the internet.
These internationally-agreed Biodiversity Targets and Strategic Goals form the structure of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.
While the United States has little choice but to accept and work with a more complex -- and probably more sluggish -- decision-making structure in post-election Pakistan, the problem for Washington and it allies is that the clock is ticking on the terrorist threat.
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