And social ties are much more likely to press our emotional buttons than professional ones.
They may be reluctant to haggle with realtors to whom they have social ties.
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The personal, family, and social ties which tightly bind many Kuwaitis have not disappeared.
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The gastronomic meal draws circles of family and friends closer together and, more generally, strengthens social ties.
They reduced isolation and offered them opportunities for work, education, and special programming to increase social ties and skills.
Many people use their mobile phone to keep in touch and maintain social ties with parents, siblings and children.
If a company turns a CSR goal like water conservation into a game, that can strengthen online and offline social ties.
Once predominately African-American, New Orleans is returning to its more multi-racial past while re-establishing its strong cultural and social ties to Latin America.
And, by allowing players to accumulate weapons, social ties and other assets over time, the games reward users for sticking with one game and playing it often.
We are often suspicious of social ties between boards and top managers, fearful that it might cloud their judgment and make them reluctant to discipline a CEO.
It will likely be necessary for advertising agencies to build in those social ties to Super Bowl commercials, because the traditional nature of turning on a television to watch the Big Game with buddies and friends simply no longer exists.
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The newspaper said the men had social networking ties that brought Tsarnaev to the attention of Russian security services for the first time in late 2010.
The social and economic ties leading them to combine are measured by commuting, but are at lower levels than are found among counties within individual metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas.
The way the Dodge Dart Registry ties in social media could prove helpful in that regard.
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Such huge traction for both a deeply feminist issue and one that ties in social technologies (which, as a culture, Germans tend to be hesitant about for privacy reasons) is shocking.
The Leaders also discussed ways to encourage and expand the development of social, cultural and educational ties between ASEAN and the United States.
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Another Facebook board member and early investor, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, moves off the list because of his ties to the social network.
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Rather, he is a very good customer who also happens to be a social media expert with deep ties to journalists he established the very-helpful Help A Reporter Out website that connects journalists to interview subjects.
Social media also allows "loose ties" with acquaintances and low-risk ways of communicating.
At age 65 he's far from through. (After the Mumbai bombings in late 2008, Milchan founded Blue Sky International, a security company, to help protect friends like Ratan Tata, owner of the Taj Hotel, from terrorist acts.) Milchan is very well connected in Hollywood and Israel, and exploits those ties to further his social and political interests, as well as his business goals.
The unfortunate truth is that social circles are filled with one-way relationships and, the more unreciprocated ties you're the benefactor of, the higher your social standing.
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But it would be hard to enforce on social networks that prize their cross-border ties.
Another Wahhabi-associated organization, the Graduate School for Islamic Social Sciences (raided by Operation Green Quest for suspected ties to terrorism) has been allowed to select, train and certify imams for the U.S. military chaplain corps.
For example, African-Americans who have strong ties to churches tend to have conservative religious and social values, Cox said.
IR Modern manufacturing has indeed become global (Survey, June 20th) and this reorganisation of production affects social and political affairs as countries become increasingly dependent on economic ties to foreign states.
To use a Korean name and Korean citizenship status in Japan means discrimination in education and employment, and difficulties in social interaction, including pre-marital checks and assumptions about ties to the criminal underworld.
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Hence the push by Mr Maloney's bank and others to build ties with trusted community organisations, such as schools or social clubs.
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