The fabric Jonathan Engel and Chang Liu have produced has a similar strength to nylon and can conduct electricity thanks to the way it is formed by interlocking rings and rectangles of about 500 microns in width.

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These transactions were developed and marketed by an interlocking network of commercial interests, including leading law firms, accounting firms and investment banks.

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It is bound together by complicated interlocking structures: various central bodies, such as the Tata trusts and Tata Sons, hold shares in the companies.

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Powell's camp sees the world through a prism of interlocking interests that need to be protected by alliances and stability.

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If firms could buy out these interlocking stakes, shareholders would benefit both by greater liquidity in the stockmarket and by a greater clarity of purpose on the part of the managers they employ.

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As these organizations expand, multiply and, in the process, intensify their efforts to promote a shared and minous agenda, it is imperative to recognize the role being played by what amount to their interlocking (or at least overlapping) boards of directors, donations from the same foundations and growing access to some key members of Congress and top levels of US policymaking circles.

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So the wise men have tried to elevate the tone by analysing the euro crisis as three interlocking problems: first, the national debts of member countries, next the bad debts of banks, and last the broader macroeconomic gloom.

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