What connects them is their link to a common ancestor -- the family patriarch William Harrison Rand.

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If this ambitious project ever takes off, the question will be what common currency to link to.

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The health authorities are trying to establish a link between the victims, who are said to have had no serious illnesses nor common health issues.

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And he should leverage America's huge Latino population to link the two sides and highlight a common history.

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At the same time, the DPJ wants to link pension payments to tax payments, and to this end has advanced the idea of a common I.

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While deploying profiles is common at the enterprise level, encouraging users to click a link in an email to download a new profile for their phone may be educating users to perform risky behaviors.

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And the same technology infrastructure that is built to link and integrate services for the citizen can provide the platform for a secure government intranet that allows common access for government employees and enables them to work better together across all departments.

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The crises of the 1990s did, however, tend to have one thing in common: they all had some kind of fixed exchange rate, often a fixed peg or link to another currency, usually the dollar, or an exchange-rate band, again usually linked to the dollar.

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