The deal between Time Warner and EMI is considered important both in its own right and in connection with Time Warner's much bigger combination with America Online, a combination valued by some estimates around $165 billion.
A guitar can be constructed from pretty much any combination of strings, pick-up and neck.
Although the traditional version places tomatoes centre-stage, you can make gazpacho by blending pretty much any combination of fresh veggies.
Now we are considering a much larger combination of types of planets and types of star that could be habitable systems.
The decision came on the day of a meeting of regulators in Brussels, at which the chief European antitrust official, Mario Monti, was expected to propose clearance for Time Warner's separate and much larger combination with America Online.
("At Accel we believe in human-aided AI and our investments have been around that topic, very much a combination," Accel partner Luciana Lixandru stressed to me).
We report a much improved combination of tensile strength and ductility, over the tensile properties of other nanocrystalline Cu materials documented in the literature.
"The current crop of entrepreneurs has a much better combination of business and technical judgment compared to the ones from the first dotcom boom.
As a result, elastomer composites with M-G nanosheets showed much better combination of high tensile strength, large extensibility and superior thermal conductivity than elastomer composites with hydrazine hydrate reduced GO containing equal filler and vulcanization accelerator contents.
Given the dire reports coming out of the Trump administration and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it's going to take pretty much a combination of everything that humanity's got to avoid a pretty catastrophic fate for a pretty large portion of the world's population.
