More than half of all major U.K. companies link long-term executive incentive payout to total shareholder returns.

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And TD Ameritrade, formed in 2006 after the bank acquired the stake, is an important link in Toronto-Dominion's U.S. expansion strategy, together with the expansion of a Portland, Maine-based commercial bank, TD Banknorth.

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More recently, a pair of government-funded studies in the U.K. revived interest in the link between food dyes and behavioral problems.

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Air travel has become an integral link between the U.S. and the global economy--not just for passengers, but also for cargo.

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Professor Nye is co-author of the CSIS Armitage-Nye Report, officially entitled: The U.S.-Alliance, Anchoring Stability in Asia ( see this link).

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In the early 20th century, there had been interest in an ulcer link to the spiral-shaped bacterium until a large 1954 U.S. study failed to find it in stomach biopsies, delaying the discovery for 28 years.

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Last year, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs decided that the link between air-borne dioxin (an ingredient in Agent Orange, and also a common air-borne pollutant emitted by waste incineration, some chemical manufacturing processes, cars and trucks, and other industrial sources that burn fuel) and diabetes was so strong, it compensated 270, 000 veterans for diabetes linked to dioxin exposure.

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So three years ago she started a San Francisco-based nonprofit called Samasource, which serves as a work link between tech companies in the U.S. and poor people overseas.

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Meanwhile, Japan's GIBN is setting up an experimental 156 megabit link between Kyushu University and Cleveland Clinic in the U.S., making possible online consultation -- even advice about on-going surgery.

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