This is typically represented by a value link of some sort, either to gold, or perhaps another major international currency.

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Consider: Many, if not most, of the 500 million cell phones expected to sell this year have some sort of Internet link.

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But at the same time, it's sort of a link to the past, too, and I'm not ready to break that tie.

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Yes, there are a handful of studies that claim to show some sort of causal link, but there are just as many that show none whatsoever.

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The news: Dropbox is releasing a feature that lets people share folders of any sort with a simple link.

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This is another link in a chain that shows that humans need some sort of contact in order to feel social obligations.

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There's also a Facebook award you can score when you link your Facebook account, if you're the sort of person who needs to tell the world what you're reading.

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You can even link the app to Facebook -- if you're the sort who enjoys bragging about your literary appetite.

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Yet the analogy with Argentina might have been closer still had Italy retained the lira, and thus been subject to the same sort of speculative pressure that eventually broke Argentina's link to the dollar.

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It is important, however, that statements of this sort be expressed in conditional fashion--that is, that they link policy expectations to the evolving economic outlook.

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