But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this paper proposes a method to do without the central counter party.
When the building was used for customs business, the domed interior had a central counter where importers conducted their transactions.
There is a soft, smooth trough in the marble floor pavers around the central counter, worn by the shoes of thousands of 19th-century importers.
One uses a counting machine in the polling place and alerts the voter to a faulty ballot; another is linked to a central counter and does not provide an alert.
He also said that clearing houses – which guarantee trades between big financial institutions and are known as central counter parties (CCPs)– are going to be subjected to new standards.
Farsi said that lessons should be learned from the government's central counter-radicalisation programme, called Prevent, which was introduced following the 7 July bombings, but despite tens of millions of pounds spent and hundreds of initiatives has been criticised for failing to achieve its goals.
"Of course, the librarian wanted it to be organised and systematic," he says, "but the other role of a library is to create space where students can meander and happen upon things they weren't looking for". His solution synthesises order and happenstance, with book categories arranged radially around a central counter, while the paths that cut across his spiral allow students to drift and discover.
As the central counter-terrorism investigation heats up, the stakes for all three, their families and relationships, get higher and higher.
Vendors will set up side by side in the 12,000-square-foot complex, some in tiny berths of 100 square feet, and shoppers can pay for their purchases at central checkout counters.
In the 1950s, Mr. Klyberg said, the Ann & Hope Mill in Cumberland, R.I., reinvented itself as one of the country's first big-box stores, introducing shopping carts, central checkout counters and clerk-free aisles filled with a grab bag of deeply discounted products.
The 'hearts and minds' strategy was central to counter-insurgency tactics in the area but prevented the military from playing a serious role in counter-narcotics operations.
