Transactions were structured in such a way that they took place outside the EU – typically in the Channel Islands.
Social Security payments, for example, were structured in 1935 to favor retirement as soon as 62 and no later than 65.
In Japan the keiretsu were regulated by specific laws, and they were structured in such a way that cooperation between them was almost compulsory.
Moreover, a loophole in the contract might absolve Vivendi of any payments if the sale were structured in a certain way -- as a single package, for instance, rather than as separate entities, people close to Vivendi said.
"Five were structured in a certain way, the sixth was a little different, but it would still have a link with player compensation and what the league was prepared to recognize as leaguewide revenues".
Some analysts, including Brian Foley, an expert on compensation, say they think that the pay packages of William T. Schleyer and Ronald Cooper, who were brought in last year as chief executive and president, were structured in a way that they would get the largest payout only if they saw the company through bankruptcy.
In 2001, after a lengthy legal battle, the Recording Industry Association of America succeeded in forcing Napster offline, only to watch Napster's services move to a number of other Web sites that were structured in a more decentralized way (pdf) — making the piracy of music even more diffuse and difficult to prosecute.
These experiments were structured in two research cycles and followed the Design-Based Research methodology.
The results were structured in a matrix for materials combinations, the THEMA matrix.
The different components were structured in onion-like layers or similar to a husk of a corn.
It is through the instrument of the Mobility Partnership that migration policies were structured in both of our case studies.
