Hugh O'Neill, the president of Appleseed, a New York-based economic development consulting firm, says: "What makes New York City a center of world finance is a concentration of talented people and an enormous base of shared knowledge, the socialized knowledge of global finance and the innovative financial culture.
Cures for the problem can be as bad as the disease: in the mid-1980's, E. D. Hirsch Jr. was so appalled at the lack of a base of shared knowledge in America that he devised, paradoxically, a cultural literacy test that is the ultimate in biteable education.
Many of those laid off this year have been socked with another setback as the value of their past compensation -- much of it based on shares of company stock, including 401 k)'s -- has plunged.
Repeatedly newcomers built social relations with natives on the bases of shared interests, emotions, and aspirations within a range of settings including residence in the same building on the same street, their workplace, a shared religious congregation, or institutional spaces such as a public libraries or community centers.
The goal of this step is to transition from your original friendship base constructed in the previous step to broader friendship bases of shared interests.
Ballot access should be simplified, and delegates should be awarded based on shares of the statewide vote.
Because the Gini coefficient is based on shares — of income, wealth, or, in this case, points — it stays the same if you double or triple the underlying quantities.
The United States wants the licenses distributed based on shares of world trade during certain periods, a system that would favor two American companies, Chiquita Brands International Inc. and the Dole Foods Company.
John S. Varley, Barclays' chief executive, said the effect of the sale "will be further to broaden the base of our share register".
Vine already has a solid user base of video-sharing addicts.
