While Mr. Tompkins insisted that the campaign did not work in tandem with the outside groups, which would be illegal, he said their advertisements were useful.
Apple has released its 2013 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, and it features a number of updates from last year, including Apple's decision to join the Fair Labor Association (a notable first), and conduct audits of its suppliers in tandem with that outside watchdog organization.
Companies may have their own in-house communications person work in tandem with an outside group or they may hire a communications agency or independent consultant to help them achieve their goals.
Pau Gasol and Bryant still form the league's best inside-outside tandem, the Heat notwithstanding.
The deal broke up the dreams that Marbury and Garnett would replace Utah's John Stockton and Karl Malone as the next great inside-outside tandem.
"Of course, Anthony is also great friends with the Knicks star Amar'e Stoudemire and they would form an imposing inside-outside tandem.
If James goes elsewhere, the Heat would still have a fantastic inside-outside tandem, with Wade and Bosh, and about $17 million to spend on a surrounding cast.
McGrady, the N.B.A.'s top scorer the past two seasons, will join forces with Yao Ming, Houston's 7-foot-6 center, to form, on paper, an inside-outside tandem second only to the Los Angeles Lakers' Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.
STRs outside known tandem repeats are defined by applying the following two filters: (A) STRs inside known tandem repeats are omitted from the analysis; (B) all contiguous segments of STRs are clustered, and all such clusters which are more than 25 bp long are omitted from the analysis.
Tandem repeats situated outside the boundaries of coding regions influence the expression of genes and the processes of transcription and translation (12).
