The Jewish-Asian love affair, as the research by Ms. Kim, 39, and Mr. Leavitt, 42, indicates, is built on a deep sense of shared commitment to "tight-knit families, hard work, and educational advancement," as they wrote in the journal Contemporary Judaism.
But some experts are skeptical that this commitment to tighter oversight will last.
Speaking at a news conference, Ms. Lagarde decried the "waning commitment" to tighter financial regulations and said that finishing the post-2008 effortoto fix the world's banks should be one of the three economic priorities in 2013.
Mr. Obama is hoping that by showing a serious commitment to tighter regulation he can more easily persuade other countries to increase government spending and stimulate demand by consumers and businesses that would help pull the global economy out of a serious decline.
For Crapanzano, "the fundamentalist's literalism, his moral commitment to the tight identification -- the coalescence -- of signifier (the 'acoustic image' in Saussure's terms) with the signified (the 'concept') exploits, rhetorically at least, the materiality of the sign".
But ahead of the election, France's borrowing costs edged up as investors grew jittery about Hollande's commitment to running a tight fiscal ship.
A decade ago, Mr Brown's commitment to eye-wateringly tight Tory spending targets was accepted by his party in the (more than justified) belief that a Labour government would eventually pour more money into the public sector than a Conservative one.
"The boys showed huge character and commitment to show what a tight group of players they are.
His promotion would signal a commitment to maintaining the party's tight grip on local media, stymieing efforts to allow traditional and social media a greater role in acting as an unofficial check on government corruption.
That tight connection and high commitment to their homeland (Tuan 1974; Le De et al. 2013) is a common distinctive cultural feature of small island inhabitants (Beller 1990; Giavelli and Rossi 1990).
