These include as plasticizers, in carbonless copy paper, lubricating oils, inks, paints, ceiling/floor tiles, window caulking, in nominally closed systems as hydraulic and heat transfer fluids, and as insulators in transformers and electrical capacitors [1], [2], [18].
According to Rachel Glennerster, a member of the XoutTB team who has worked as an economist at the IMF and the British Treasury, the local medical clinics are closed about 60% of the time and doctors or nurses are often absent during the 40% when the doors are nominally open.
Nominally, there are close links.
This is a substance nominally so very close to being made of the same stuff that makes up everything we see around us, yet coldly destructive of our way of life.
The story, nominally about the closing of an armaments factory in Chengdu, China, to make way for a huge residential complex called 24 City, is told partly through interviews with factory workers who recount a half-century of Chinese history as seen from the shop floor and the company dormitory.
Mr. Levy, a lawyer himself, arrived yesterday morning at the courtroom not as a participant but as a spectator, there to witness what nominally passes for theater in the legal world: closing arguments in a high-profile case.
The proposal would close the loophole for companies like Tyco International, nominally a conglomerate based in Bermuda but which manages its operations from Exeter, N.H.
Chicago's Tortoise might nominally be a "rock" band, but it comes as no surprise to see them closing this year's London jazz festival.
And while this may nominally be a family affair, don't be fooled for a second: this is Mr. Crystal's show from opening to close, and he is not especially good about sharing.
But "while this may nominally be a family affair," she added, "don't be fooled for a second: this is Mr. Crystal's show from opening to close, and he is not especially good about sharing".
The party, now only nominally Communist, has been pursuing closer ties to the West.
