Mr. Lipton's offering advice to Mr. Grasso at the same time that he was serving in crucial advisory roles at the exchange underscores in critics' eyes how the stock exchange remains a warren of insider relationships and cozy, if not conflicted, ties.
But how hard that can be is underlined by the elaborate procedures that medical journals have developed to screen potential authors for conflicting financial ties to industry.
Despite the conflict, ties between the two countries run deep.
The contrast trying to play the game of life, doing, achieving, and having success while knowing meanwhile love is the ultimate reality can be confusing, conflicting, and tying heart and mind into knots.
That would have made Washington an active combatant in sectarian conflict, tied America even closer to Maliki, and turned U.S. forces into a lightning rod for discontented Iraqis.
Seven Aggies received the Medal of Honor during the worldwide conflict, tying with Virginia Tech as the most of any school outside of the military academies at West Point and Annapolis, and 29 former students reached the rank of general.
A way to incorporate and integrate differences, not through compromises or by choosing sides, but by tying conflicting interests into a Gordian knot of new ideas".
After more than a decade of multiple ordinances and multiple lawsuits, resulting in conflicting rulings that tied up enforcement of the laws, it looked as though the legal haze had cleared.
But American officials offered conflicting assessments about his ties to Al Qaeda and the possible scope of his terrorist connections.
C1 John S. Reed, the interim chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, proposed a board that he said would be unencumbered by insider ties and conflicting interests.
