As the NRC report notes, people have been trained for generations to think of their water supply and their waste disposal as two quite separate, and unrelated, undertakings.
Times Newspapers is legally bound to keep the daily and Sunday titles under separate editorial stewardship because of undertakings given by Rupert Murdoch when he bought the company in 1981.
Choosing the best media match or the right combination of media for communication activities is crucial in commercial marketing, thus this type of success factor and related undertakings formed a separate cluster.
They say that they "have received new written assurances that satisfy them that the company remains fully committed to maintaining the titles as separate newspapers", which was required by the undertakings given to the trade secretary when Rupert Murdoch acquired the titles in 1981.
Under the IRS's interpretation of the hobby-loss rule, revenue and expenses from separate, unrelated activities cannot be combined unless the undertakings are "sufficiently interconnected".
The separate terrorist cells in the three countries were "three parallel efforts or undertakings that all trace their lineage back to Pakistan," said a senior American intelligence official.
If the watchdog can be persuaded to attach firm undertakings on book selection and promotion - perhaps insisting on separate buying departments within the new company - it might just sweeten the pill enough to make it acceptable.
Before the modern period, religion was not a separate activity, hermetically sealed off from all others; rather, it permeated all human undertakings, including economics, state-building, politics and warfare.
Any one of these undertakings will help you step outside your divorce "activities" and help you separate from your divorce.
GBD 2010 and CHERG's mortality estimates represent enormous undertakings by some of the world's leading experts in mortality estimation, yet these separate efforts resulted in markedly different estimates for country-level and etiology-specific U5 mortality for pneumonia and diarrhea.
