But Merrill, which has already raised $15 billion since John A. Thain took over as chief executive last fall, is finding it difficult to raise additional capital through previously used means, like selling preferred stock to sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors, and it would prefer to avoid diluting the holdings of existing investors.
The military does not divulge the specific rules, but in most instances, soldiers are to use other means, like tear gas or rubber bullets, unless they believe they are in danger, military officials say.
"The 24-hour nature of the internet and devices children use means young people can feel like there's no escape, with them facing almost constant harassment which can leave them feeling increasingly desperate and isolated.
Amicus seeks to profit from helping nonprofits replace inefficient fund-raising using old means, like mail appeals and cold calls, with social media: friends referring friends.
So there is room for a continued local-global campaign that is, not coincidentally, highly reminiscent of the movement to fight South African apartheid using economic means like divestment.
I locked my own bike up and then proceeded to steal it, using brazen means — like a giant crowbar — in audacious locations, including directly in front of a police station.
As Adam Brandt, an energy expert at Stanford University, pointed out to me recently, so long as the demand is there, energy producers are going to search for new supplies of fossil fuel — many of them using unconventional means like tar sands extraction.
Unlike enantiomers, diastereomers have distinct physical properties that allow cooks to separate them using physical means like solubility.
Police chiefs worldwide would agree that this would have been the time to separate the groups – using nonlethal means like tear-gas rounds or water cannons to break up a protest that was already an all-out street brawl.
Dr. Daniel Grossman, a co-investigator in the TxPEP project and professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California San Francisco, told me the Texas study did not find incidences of women using invasive means, like trying to insert an object into the vagina or uterus.
