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Last month, the Guardian exposed a $2.7bn£1.9bnbn) lending structure set up in the Netherlands by drugs group AstraZeneca to avoid UK tax.
It was legally able to do so partly by securing some UK tax deductions from the Dutch lending structure as well as by offsetting high running costs and investment at its UK operations and using other tax breaks, some relating to new medicine research and development.
The polymers that hold Masa-based corn tortillas together are work the same way as those that bind the traditional Ethiopian bread Injera, in both cases lending structure and necessary elasticity to these ostensibly unrelated flatbreads.
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Here the narrative thread is even more slender — there's no community play ("Waiting for Guffman") or memorial concert ("A Mighty Wind") — to lend structure.
Not that the clothes look the least bit retro, but the designers don't shy away from fabrics that lend structure to their tailoring, like neoprene and jersey.
The sculpted internal corsetry of the earliest collections was gone but had been replaced with rib-hugging canvas panels to lend structure – all the better for showing off a tiny waist.
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