In contrast, a majority or a large minority think EU countries should loosen links on national budgets (57%), laws on trade unions and strikes (54%), agriculture (57%) and weights and measures (48%).
US officials, analysts and academics who question whether the national interest might be better served by loosening links quickly find themselves in the middle of huge squabbles and accusations of antisemitism.
- The old European regions anchored in history and tradition bide their time to loosen links with the nation-state.
While the renminbi, China's currency, has risen 3.6 percent against the dollar since China loosened its link to the dollar last June, Mr. Lardy estimates that it is still undervalued by 15 percent to 17 percent on a trade-weighted basis.
20th-century Privy Council decisions (e.g. the abolition of compulsory daily worship, dissociation of the Regius Professorship of Hebrew from clerical status, diversion of colleges' theological bequests to other purposes) loosened the link with traditional belief and practice.
By promising to pay an employee a large sum upfront, the bank would essentially loosen the link between compensation and risk.
Instead of loosening the link between premiums and wages, it has put up the premiums, increasing non-wage costs that are already among the world's highest.
For example, they will try to loosen the link between a store manager's bonus and the store's performance, so that successful store managers can more easily be persuaded to try their hand at turning around troubled stores.
In Norway, where I have just arrived for a human-rights conference called the Oslo Freedom Forum, there have been some moves to loosen the link between state, church and crown, but the process is incomplete.
Up to now, this abstraction has been informal, loosening the link between the final model and the experts' knowledge.
