For a while, Mr. Manners was one of the Three Links of Sausage, sponsored by Armour & Company, the meatpacker.
If it's true that obesity can affect people even three links away, that may be one reason that people have such trouble keeping weight off.
And when I asked a spokesman for Murray Energy who, exactly, the four thousand scientists were, he e-mailed me three links.
He proposes to expand the "three links" with the mainland, meaning trade, transport and communications, which his predecessors had kept under strict control.
In 2000, Taiwanese officials approved a policy of establishing the "little three links" to Fujian Province from Kinmen and the island of Matsu.
Taiwan is already so deeply involved in the Chinese economy as both a foreign investor and a trading partner that the leverage gained over China by withholding the three links is slight.On March 21st, the KMT-controlled legislature took the first step, passing a law that allowed the three links between Fujian province and two tiny islands, Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu.
In Google's conventional search-engine results, the first link to Mr. Goodman, who shares his name with one of three civil rights workers slain in Mississippi in 1964, appears below three links to that Andrew Goodman.
Beijing has long sought such direct ties, known as the "three links," not just to save the cost of sending goods and flights via Hong Kong but as a way to draw Taiwan to the mainland.
Three links are provided below.
The arm consisted of a base, three links, and a gripper.
