tie-dye English

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tie-dye

— verb dye after knotting the fabric to produce an irregular pattern The flower children tie-dye their T-shirts

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That, together with a high ranking for volunteering time, led it to tie with Myanmar as the most generous nation in the world.

If we want Europe to be more legitimate, we must explain how to tie these two dimensions of power.

As we know from other contexts, adjustment to newcomers is not easy: compare, say, the reaction to the tie-up between France's Alcatel and America's Lucent to the bids by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation for Chevron or Mittal for Acelor.

While this does not guarantee that no relationship exists between religion and discrimination against women, it suggests that if such a tie does exist, it is unrelated to female labor market participation or preference for sons.

But we need to look country-by-country at what else we can do to tie Europe's own parliament into national politics.

Whatever the merits of a common currency, those in Europe deliberating about adopting the Euro should consider whether to tie their fortunes to an institutional arrangement whose flaws are increasingly apparent.

Unions and agricultural groups tie up traffic with protests every other day, hinting at possible escalation.

Obviously, being highly educated, wearing a tie, eating with a fork, or cutting one's nails weekly is not enough.

It took hard military power to sever that tie.

Lady Ashton should be able to tie together the political and resource arms of Europe's external policies.

Better to radically reduce the size of the Commission, and to either tie countries into regional packages for Commission representation or rotate membership every few years among countries.

The companies with back-end standards will create interfaces to a couple of the leading applications; then other applications will tie themselves into those back-ends.

Equity-based awards, coupled with the highly leveraged capital structure of banks, tie executives' compensation to a leveraged bet on the value of banks' assets.

Consequently, governance improvements that make directors more focused on shareholder interests cannot be relied on to tie executive payoffs to the interests of shareholders and non-shareholders alike.

America's inflation would be contained but for the fact that so many countries, from the Middle East to Asia, effectively tie their currencies to the dollar.

It would therefore be tragic if the EU missed the opportunity to tie Kazakhstan firmly to the West.

To tie Europe closer to Africa, British Prime Minister Tony Blair even proposed eliminating the European Union's agricultural subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy.

But one hopes that campaign promises won't tie the new leader's hands, as so often happens in electoral politics.

When Germans tie their hands with constitutional budget laws, they are in effect untying their neighbors'.

Unions have historically been especially important since they engage in decentralized wage bargaining that tie wages to firms' productivity.

He is frequently booed and mocked by fans, and many thought that baseball's commissioner, Bud Selig, should not attend games at which Bonds might tie or break the record.

Of course, investors who don't want to tie up their funds in low-yielding government bonds can buy explicit inflation hedges as an overlay to their other investments.

If parliaments want to tie their own hands, they can do so simply by passing a law.

One key feature of the Bretton Woods system was that countries would tie their exchange rates to the US dollar.