Financial and strategic decisions are often intertwined such that choices made in relation to one of these functions carry critical implications for the other.

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Two often intertwined instincts are our deep desire to understand why unexpected things happen, and to want control over the events that affect us or our business.

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Unfortunately, the two are often intertwined.

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Movies about intertwined lives often suffer from the gimmick that's supposed to sustain them: Two examples of recent years, "Crash" and "Babel, " piled on fateful connections to the point of self-parody.

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Along the way he created dozens of companies--from a marketing firm and a golf course to a maker of specialty cars and an engineering outfit--that became increasingly intertwined with Venture, often sharing its corporate address and cash-management system.

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Often handed down within families for generations, the craft of batik is intertwined with the cultural identity of the Indonesian people and, through the symbolic meanings of its colours and designs, expresses their creativity and spirituality.

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But, solutions often cause problems, and the problem I see coming is a healthcare system that is so intertwined, regionally concentrated, and opaque that it can charge what it decides it must, with little restraint.

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