And we still can't rip apart the packaging on the things we buy.
For Citigroup, as well as other Wall Street firms, the business of slicing apart and packaging mortgages and other loans into complex securities had been a lucrative and fast-growing business before the financial crisis.
Once, the supergroup was Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, now it's the Monsters of Folk (a mix of Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket and M Ward), although that possibly tells us that, actually, nothing changes, apart from packaging, T-shirt design and distribution methods.
That night, in my room at the Alessandra, I deconstructed my haul, taking apart the packages, discarding the shoeboxes and fancy wrappings, and cramming everything into my carry-on.
In an afternoon session, Iranian negotiators picked apart a package of enticements that the six world powers first offered last month in Baghdad, which includes parts for old American civilian aircraft and fuel for an Iranian nuclear reactor, with the promise of more sanctions relief in return for specific Iranian actions to come into compliance over time.
Slides supplied by Edward Snowden appeared to show that the NSA had tools that could pull apart data packages sent across Yahoo and Google's internal networks.
Some Democratic strategists said that given the rush to get a fiscal cliff bill through Congress before U.S. financial markets opened for the new year last Wednesday, it likely seemed unrealistic to pick apart the package of tax credits - known as "extenders" - that had passed the Senate Finance Committee on a bipartisan, 19-5 vote.
The CART analysis was done using R software (apart and rpart.plot packages).
Part of their strategy to bring some "innovation" to the category involved packaging: apart from eliminating the word "granola," they also banished actual bear imagery and any graphics that resembled oats or connoted nature (too crunchy) in favor of a more minimalist design featuring three slashes suggesting claw marks.
Apart from the packaging function, nucleosomes may serve as a signaling module (Turner, 2012) that is integrated into biological processes acting with and on chromatin.
