It's a way to express our gratitude and to create a social bond with the host.
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It is certainly possible that excessive use of smart phones and social media can negatively affect the social bond a parent has with their child.
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One particularly interesting type of charitable bond is the Social Impact Bond (SIB) pioneered by Social Finance.
Initial funds to back the first social impact bond in the program came partly from one of the Sainsbury Family Trusts.
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Despite the incredible speed at which the social impact bond story is being written, we are still only in the first chapter.
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She called on Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to pilot the Social Impact Bond model as a new approach to prison rehabilitation and reducing reoffending.
The Foundation has focused its attention on every actor group involved in a social impact bond through our work and the work of our grantees.
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In 2009, The Rockefeller Foundation gave a grant to Social Finance UK to develop a then unknown innovative finance tool called the social impact bond.
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Ms Bond said social media allowed the campaign to target "new audiences" in London, Cambridge and the East Midlands.
The most successful brands seek to bond with their customers and social media makes it easier than ever to do so.
The app is innovative in several ways, it addresses issue of range anxiety by using the smartphone to map out charging stations along the route, manage the costs of recharging and empower users to connect to their social media accounts to rank accomplishments and bond with other users.
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It is not clear what the legal priority is among the Treasury's obligations, whether contractual such as bond debt or statutory such as social security.
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Unlike traditional bonds, SIBs do not have a fixed rate of return as financial return depends on the achievement of specific social outcomes set at the start of the bond issue.
Deeply integrated into the lives of coastal Chinese and their descendants, belief in and commemoration of Mazu is an important cultural bond that promotes family harmony, social concord, and the social identity of these communities.
Italy and Spain are especially subject to social unrest which, if unleashed, would spook bond holders and reignite fear of the Eurozone splintering.
They believe that the primates, which live in very large social groups, are using the verbal exchanges to bond with each other, in a similar way to how humans might use small talk.
Overall social media sentiment is just about in line with that for James Bond (I used veooz.com to check) and for Skyfall (just 4:1).
The wearing of uniforms is a daily reminder to young Singaporeans that school is where they stand together and bond with fellow citizens, regardless of race, religion or social status.
The "base" calculation includes one-half your Social Security, plus almost all your other income, including tax-exempt bond interest but not Roth withdrawals.
Behavioral economists (and women) highlight the social utility of gift-giving: When well chosen, gifts help create a bond between spouses or friends or even casual acquaintances.
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He has stated that the terms of Ecuador's bond restructuring following the 1999 default were too favourable to bondholders and has hinted that social spending will take priority over debt servicing.
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The bloated remake, produced for an international market, forsakes subtlety, never mind irony, in favor of consumerist fantasy (Georgia exults in the excesses of her luxury hotel), slapstick action (James Bond meets Mack Sennett as Georgia gets her first snowboarding lesson) and ham-handed social criticism (Georgia gives her company's CEO his comeuppance).
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