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skein

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To wind or weave into a skein

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A skein of low clouds had whipped across the southeast all day, reducing visibility and restricting the number of planes that took off and landed in Atlanta.

Now, in America, the growth of electronic communications networks (ECNs) has seen broker-dealers turn into exchanges, and two have applied to be regulated as such.For investment banks, and retail banks in their wholesale businesses, the Internet adds another twist to this already tangled skein.

But he could not wholly avoid the skein of hard historical and political issues facing the church there.

Mr Abdel Haleem argues it is time that English became one of the familiar languages of Islam, like Urdu.In this section Shireen and others like her Found in translation A tangled skein Cowboys who ride the high seas Death in Amsterdam Blood-curdling aesthetes ReprintsWhile excellent, the translation inevitably lacks the power of the original.

In fact, Mr Goldhagen also cites German re-education, the criminalisation of anti-Semitic expression, Germany's reintegration into Europe and other factors.Reading "Hitler's Willing Executioners" and "A Nation on Trial" together, the reader gets the troubling sense that both are the products of passions that the skein of citation and counter-citation do nothing to hide.

At the other extreme, some writers become bogged down in the bewildering complexity underneath this simple framework: the tangled skein of ethnic rivalries and grudges that have fuelled one of the world's longest running civil wars, fought by more than a dozen armed insurgencies around Myanmar's borders.Thant Myint-U's fine book seeks the middle ground.

In it he shows how the skein of shipping routes on the Selden map were connected with the rise of London as a global city.

For example, the government spends 11% of GDP on absurdly generous pension systems in a still youthful country.Business is snagged by a skein of regulation, including labour laws copied from those of Mussolini.

Despite Mexico's skein of trade agreements, branching out into new markets is hard because of the accords' rules of origin.

He also, for the first time, allows himself to wonder about his dead father, who would never admit to being Jewish.In this section Shireen and others like her Found in translation A tangled skein Cowboys who ride the high seas Death in Amsterdam Blood-curdling aesthetes ReprintsChoosing Amsterdam as a setting is a smart move.

Surrounded by a collection of macabre incubi the calcified foetus she miscarried long before, the nine-year-old son killed by a lorry, and three eyeless "Fats" (her Fates), obese versions of herself made of all the pounds she has dieted off and on again, winding a skein of intestines between them Lily spends her time exercising, as she puts it, the greyhounds of her contempt.

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