Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, told employees on Thursday that the company would announce in "short order" which of three paths it would choose in its pursuit of Yahoo.
However, its prickly foliage makes it unsuitable for growth near paths, it is prone to lose branches in strong wind, and it is often attacked by woodboring beetles.
Answers, scores, pace, click paths — it hoovers up information, like Google.
If the two companies do cross paths, it will be part of a local tradition.
What are the consequences of the different paths it might take?The relationship will not break down in acrimony.
She hates the vogue for transforming shorelines into concrete pedestrian malls and bike paths: "It horrifies me.
We know too little about how life began, and what evolutionary paths it might take, to answer this basic question.
It's a relatively cautious, non-conspiratorial approach to the New Testament's central mystery, and given some of the alternative paths it does him credit to have taken it.
"The Edge of Heaven" is about something more exasperating than crossed paths; it is about paths that almost cross but don't, and the tragedy of the near-miss.
But he also makes it clear that he feels the Warburg has departed from some of the richer intellectual paths it pioneered.
By providing cycle paths, it would reduce pressure on inexperienced cyclists to share the road with cars, motorcycles, buses and lorries.
