And yet, as Spottiswoode writes, "whether this reflects a similarly specialized communication system to that mediating the honeyguide-human mutualism in Mozambique remains unknown".
In a telling visual pun, Ozu likens the boring regimentation of the Japanese school system to that of the businessman's office.
And how can government possibly calculate the cost of securing everything from the subway system to that pizza place in the Port Authority?
The response is measured as the ratio of the amplitude of the signal obtained out of the system to that put in.
John Marshall, the famed chief justice, traced the rise of the two-party system to that blistering episode, and American politics soon took on a nastily partisan tone.
They might compare their system to that in Tennessee, where Carroll Academy is located, in a neighboring state in their region, or in other states of their choice.
Some argue for a similar system to that currently in place in Germany, under which migrants are distributed across the country according to the size of a region's population and its tax revenues per head.
Russia advanced an oil pipeline project to ship Russian crude directly to Western European markets; the oil will go through the Croatian pipeline system to that country's Adriatic Sea port of Omisalj.
The company has compared the scoring system to that in the online game Warcraft, in the way that it allows people who get swiped by others with higher scores to gain more points from that interaction.
The close resemblance of this system to that of modern English, in which it is a comparatively recent development, has been variously explained as the working of a substratum or, more recently, in terms of areal (regional) development.
Michael Pistorio, Des Plaines, Ill.: While I completely agree that it is a travesty for Americans to be devoid of a national health care solution, I question the rationale of comparing the costs of an American system to that of a foreign system.
