Picture a company with a patchwork of ownership interests in assets collectively worth $20 billion, assets that range from unglamorous textile and paper mills to trophy holdings like the Seattle Mariners major league baseball team.
Tomorrow, it could be any other issue under the sun, and there's just no reason to poke a hole in the voting rights of Arizonans or to create a patchwork of special interest issues that are shielded from voter action by such subterfuge.
The difficulties in proposing, let alone enforcing, the measures stem from deep divisions within the center-right coalition, a patchwork of conflicting vested interests.
The last time such loans were available, they were offered mostly by local lenders and so there was a patchwork of terms and interest rates, but this time around they are available at uniform rates nationwide through about 1,500 banks, mortgage companies and other financial institutions.
There are signs that this policy may not last, and that a bit more integration of this patchwork of interests may be on the cards.
A majority of New Yorkers are now nonwhite, and old party machines have been replaced by a more diverse patchwork of interest groups, activists, new voters and immigrant blocs.
The banking system is overseen by a patchwork of regulators, many of which have competing interests and overlapping jurisdictions.
India's political landscape, which was controlled almost exclusively by the Congress party in the 1950s and '60s, is now crowded by a patchwork of state-level parties animated by local interests and backed by strong electoral bases.
The various owners and interests of Volkswagen — a patchwork of rich families, influential unions and the German state of Lower Saxony, which owns about 20percentt — must still negotiate the precise details of the combination, while adding a newcomer from a Persian Gulf emirate.
In his book, Dr. Gould contended that Morton's results were "a patchwork of fudging and finagling in the clear interest of controlling a priori convictions".
In his book, Dr. Gould contended that Morton's results were "a patchwork of fudging and finagling in the clear interest of controlling a priori convictions". This fudging was not deliberate, Dr. Gould said, but rather an instance of unconscious doctoring of data, a practice he believed was "rampant, endemic and unavoidable" in science.
