Then, Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, followed with an unannounced visit in July — underscoring the tight link between the military and intelligence efforts.
"There is such a tight link among the cormorants on Lake Champlain, which is really just a small pond to them," Mr. Gobeille said.
The hitherto tight link between economic activity and job creation looks disturbingly slack.To see how this has come about, it helps to divide the recession into three phases.
However, it has since recognised the potential of notional accounts, which establish a tight link between payroll contributions and eventual pension benefits.
The Hong Kong dollar's peg was once also a tight link to the yuan, which was itself pegged to America's currency.
But he said virtual-machine software breaks the tight link between the operating system and the hardware, raising the possibility that customers could be using Windows more but not paying for it.
But some of his colleagues -- including Laurence H. Meyer, the Fed governor most closely identified with the school of economists who see a tight link between unemployment and inflation -- are not so sure.
At the People's Bank of China, the central bank, a consensus was also emerging in late 2004: China should break its tight link to the dollar, which would make its exports more expensive.
If stimuli that cause physiological response — but that do not elicit a positive rating on the keypad — lead to increased erotic fantasies, masturbation or sexual activity with a partner, then she could deduce a tight link.
But according to pluralism, there is no such tight link.
A tight link between the different disciplines (aerodynamics, flight mechanics, aeroelasticity, etc).
