Thus the repo market has become intimately linked to the cash market in Treasury bonds.

ECONOMIST: Repurchase agreements

It's a shame it's so intimately linked to the smell, since simply not overcooking avoids the problem.

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Throughout history, the development of mankind has been intimately linked to the natural history and the resources of our planet.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Earth Sciences

Politics and water control, the Chinese character implies, are intimately linked.

ECONOMIST: Water rights

Epstein commissioned a detailed statistical assessment of the correlation between Pentagon technology spending and various potential drivers in 2005, measuring which factors were most intimately linked with the rise and fall of weapons outlays all the way back to 1955.

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President Bush has argued the two are intimately linked, but Daalder says Europeans see the two as separate ventures, and he says the London attacks will drive home the belief in European capitals that Iraq is in fact a diversion from a more pressing threat.

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