In practice, a gold value link has been the most effective way of achieving this goal.
This is typically represented by a value link of some sort, either to gold, or perhaps another major international currency.
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The Obama administration is said to link Britain's value as an ally to its weight in the EU: hence Mr Brown's new respect for Europe.
Though many still see an indirect link between gold prices and the value of the dollar, it is one based entirely on market forces.
Rosas said Pure Networks brought together network OS development expertise and end user ease-of-use expertise into a product that adds a lot of value for D-Link customers.
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We use a number of techniques (since the value proposition is also the key link to your product scenarios).
He is likely to stress the value of Catholic social teaching and link it with ideas of community-building contained in David Cameron's concept of the Big Society.
But if the power of the grey vote secures a big one-off real increase in the basic pension before an election, pensioners are unlikely to stop there, and allow the subsequent erosion of its value through the resumption of the link with prices.
Despite repeated efforts to use premium Time Warner content to drive subscriptions, the link with the entertainment assets has proved of little value.
Accounting and finance can help because they give us analytical tools to make projections and to link what we expect to happen in the real world with the value added by our efforts.
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"We commend these banks for strengthening the link between compensation and business integrity, which is central to creating long-term value, and for setting new standards of disclosure, " he said.
With bond funds, the link was so weak that the relatively high expenses charged by actively managed funds overwhelmed the value of their modest outperformance.
Against that account, Mr Blair in fact met Mr Mittal at a reception for high value party donors, and so can hardly have been unaware of the financial link.
He is in favour of a link-up with a bank from another European country, which he says would create more value for shareholders.
If you happen to come back into a 4G area (signal level above the 3G value), it switches modes again taking another 30 seconds to establish an active link.
Dowling said Pure Networks is sharing its APIs with partners like AOL and D-Link so they can write both agents and applications that leverage the Network Magic platform to the enhance the value of their hardware and software offerings.
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Mohanbir Sawhney, professor of e-commerce at Kellogg School of Management and Steven Kaplan, at the University of Chicago Business School, argue in a recent article that the value created by business-to-business hubs, where every buyer and seller can potentially link with every other, vastly exceeds that of business-to-consumer models where there are lots of buyers, but just one seller.
This would avoid areas of high conservation value, and - although a longer route - would bring the opportunities afforded by a modern transport link to more people.
But now the dollar's value against the yen is more than 30% higher than in early 1995, and so a link to the dollar is no longer such a lure for Japanese investment and technology.
Abandoning the link to gold meant that it was entirely up to governments to ensure that their token-based currencies kept their value.
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