The business school will have close ties with the New York branch.

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He is a maverick in a country whose financial institutions have long operated around hak-yeon, ji-yeon and hyul-yun (school, hometown and kinship ties) and government diktat on who to lend to and how much.

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All courses will have close ties with the hard school of real life.

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Jefri has withdrawn his kids from school, decamped to London and cut all ties with the sultanate.

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Universal aims to improve the school through a federal Promise Neighborhoods grant that ties together housing, health care and other programs to help children succeed.

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The area around Fellowship has several other organizations with ties to anthroposophy, including a private school, a bookstore and a co-op grocery that sells some of the community's crops.

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It was at a flight school in Arizona, according to the United States, that Raissi had close ties with Hani Hanjour, believed to have piloted the commercial airliner that crashed into the Pentagon.

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They range in age from early 20s to 70s and include a Wal-Mart worker, a high school teacher, a retired school bus driver and a student in his junior year at Penn State who has ties to the football team and knows some witnesses in the case.

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