Perhaps equally unsurprising is that waists have widened as Okinawans, ruled directly by the United States from the end of World War II to 1972, have, of all Japanese, most closely adopted the American lifestyle of cars, suburban malls and fast food.
And anonymous diplomatic sources told the New York Times that Tillerson may have more closely adopted his boss's tone during his visit behind the scenes.
Many patient advocacy groups are questioning why the Obama administration did not more closely adopt the features of Medicare's drug benefits program, known as Part D, which got off to a rocky start in 2006 but is now seen as a successful program.
The most successful revival since Pimlott's has been Trevor Nunn's at the Old Vic in 2005, significantly the one that followed it most closely in adopting modern dress and the trappings of current political life.
We follow closely the strategy adopted in previous evaluations (see, for example, Maus et al., 2005) focusing on statistical comparisons between the candidate models and various mean models, and utilizing well-established diagnostic tools in both the spectral and physical domains.
The structural architecture of this motif was found to mimic closely the conformation adopted by Tyr-Pro-Phe minicores recorded in the crystallographic protein database (Supplementary Figure S5).
As with the telephone, Britain and France nationalized radio and America adopted a closely regulated private system.
It closely resembles the flag adopted in 1861, shortly after North Carolina seceded from the Union.
In the late 20th century the two closely related groups jointly adopted the name Innu ("people").
The majority opinion did not dispute this interpretation, which aligns closely with the one adopted by our circuit.
Crumley, who has died aged 68, grew up in south Texas, but is most closely associated with his adopted home town of Missoula, Montana.
