Many urbanites still preserve some of the spirit of the smaller traditional communities, especially in older, more consolidated neighborhoods created during communism and in lower condominium buildings.
Net-shaped preforms, which are originally periodic in nature, lose their periodicity when the fabric is draped, deformed on a tool, and consolidated to create geometrically complex composite components.
Performance management used to be solely the purview of the CFO, who was responsible for creating consolidated financial statements for each division or subsidiary.
Abitibi-Consolidated bought Donohue Inc., creating a leader in newsprint, and St. Laurent Paperboard of Canada bought Smurfit-Stone Container, the world's biggest corrugated-box maker.
"Our immediate priority is to focus on pan-Arab content, and creating a consolidated centre for excellence and Arab content.
Those actions include support for the O.E.C.D.'s initiative to curb tax evasion and the European Commission's work toward creating a consolidated corporate tax base for companies active in the 28-nation bloc.
There has been talk of creating a consolidated seat on the board to represent the 27 nations of the European Union, or the 16 countries in the monetary zone that uses the euro.
For consolidated and mature branches, creating new chains and challenging established ones is the only alternative.
"The system that they are building is going to keep us, I think, safe," said Timothy P. Doody, the president of the consolidated levee board created to correct the failures of fragmented local boards.
The appointee, George D. Warrington, 49, will return to the agency where he was deputy executive director and vice president of rail operations from 1980 to 1990, a period just after the state first took over a number of failing commuter and bus lines and consolidated them to create New Jersey Transit.
