As the only private lobbyist to testify before the City Council in favor of its current lobbying reform efforts, I am sorry that the Council overlooked what is easily the most egregious loophole in the lobbying laws: the legality of council members' close relatives serving as lobbyists.
Information on pollination distances, cross-fertilization rates, and on potential wild relatives serves as a basis for defining these isolation distances, issued by the individual EU countries.
Many case analyses suggest that personal relationships, both formal (e.g., clients and former employees) and informal (e.g., friends and relatives), serve as instrumental tools for obtaining foreign market information by SME firms (e.g., Ellis and Pecotich 2001; Johnsen and Johnsen 1999; Prashantham 2006).
Most of the parents were mothers (n = 98, 72.6%); 22 (16.3%) were fathers and 15 (11.1%) were foster parents or other close relatives serving as caregivers.
We infer that the youngest of the splits between a hybrid allopolyploid's homeologs and its closest relatives serves as an estimate of the maximum age of formation of each allopolyploid [ 95] (Table 4).
In Manicaland, Zimbabwe, where 60% of births occur at home with relatives serving as birth attendants, Egullion [ 51] offered culturally sensitive training to 4000 TBAs and established linkages between TBAs and health facility staff.
He and Mr. Khan come from a prominent family in Pakistan: over the last century, a number of relatives have served as members of Parliament.
Ms. López and Mr. Santos share an unusual political connection: They have relatives who served as presidents, back to back, in the 1930s and 1940s.
In addition, data on the specific relationship of relatives who served as informal providers to women who sought care were not collected.
Some of these species (e.g., D. pseudoobscura and its close relatives) have served as favorable models for evolutionary biology since the influential works of Dobzhansky and his colleagues in the 1930's [ 1, 2].
