Aides to the subcommittee said they have never seen a company employ such a complex structure.
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Biological drugs, which have a complex structure, are far more complicated to produce than regular chemical drugs, which have a single molecular structure.
Cognitive scientists and child psychologists have determined that children develop a complex conceptual structure, a sort of mental taxonomy of the world around them, which they use to order and define objects when they see them.
No matter the outcome, the dispute has become a catalyst for change in a sport known for a complex management structure, heavy bureaucracy and conflicts of interest.
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From setting up central offices in low tax havens such as Nevada, Luxembourg and the British Virgin Islands, to its use of a complex tax structure known as "The Double Irish, " Apple has relentlessly exploited legal tax loopholes.
He said on Thursday his report had revealed "a lack of transparency, inadequate planning and preparation, as well as a complex and confusing organisational structure with weak quality assurance and insufficient governance oversight".
What makes aircraft fatigue such an dark art is that, unlike standard tests done in a laboratory, an aircraft's structure has to endure a complex, mostly random, set of static as well as cyclical stresses when in service.
The more complex a company's structure, Mr Lazzarini finds, the less consumers and private shareholders benefit from public investment in it.
One team, for instance, inserted the virus into a program running a Mandelbrot set, a complex, mathematics-based structure named after the father of fractal geometry.
The Association of School and College Leaders has warned that confusion over its complex structure and a low take-up rate could doom the qualification to second-class status.
S.C.(c) in fact own Caribou through a very complex off-shore ownership structure.
Yet another source of Mr Blair's self-confidence is a feeling that Britain could play a pivotal role in Europe's complex structure of cross-border defence relationships.
Yukos officials are defiant, saying that, if the idea is to strip out the subsidiaries and leave an empty shell, their complex ownership structure will make it a tough legal battle.
Apple's appearance comes just a day after the same panel branded Apple's complex structure the "Holy Grail of tax avoidance".
Digging below the surface of GDP reveals a structure of value-adding production far more complex than the simplistic analysis given by most media reports.
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With a mixture of entities, it is much harder to pinpoint exactly how a drug works, as the chemical structure may be extremely complex.
While the United States has little choice but to accept and work with a more complex -- and probably more sluggish -- decision-making structure in post-election Pakistan, the problem for Washington and it allies is that the clock is ticking on the terrorist threat.
Dr Boyd hopes to move a bit in that direction by making the models of both individual behaviour and group structure more complex.
Given the complex structure of Voynichese words, writing hundreds of pages of internally consistent gibberish would be a tough task for a fraudster to pull off.
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