Twin Peaks

where the top is, but where exactly is the bottom of a mountain? For example, some argue that Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania—at 19,340 feet—is taller than Everest because it rises straight out of the African plain, whereas Everest is merely one of many peaks topping the enormous base of the Himalayas, shared by the world’s next thirteen highest mountains. Others claim that the most logical measure ought to be the distance of a mountain’s peak from the center of the Earth. Because the Earth is a flattened

ministères et organismes à mettre en place les systèmes de contrôle interne permettant d’optimiser les performances de leur organisation. L’encadré ci-après précise l’articulation du MAF et des CMC. Encadré – Les Core Management Controls To achieve the twin objectives of relevance and appropriateness, the Core Management Controls framework needs to be consistent with the principles and practices already being applied in the federal government. In this regard, the MAF sets out a series of expectations

warranties and indemnities The purchaser of T Co will try to ensure that any hidden tax problems in T Co do not effectively become the purchaser’s problem as a result of his having acquired T Co. The purchaser will normally seek to achieve this via a twin-track approach of seeking tax warranties and tax indemnities. Tax warranties consist of a number of statements covering the tax position of T Co, such statements being included in the overall purchase and sale agreement for the shares in T Co. Essentially

psychology lends itself to connecting the psychology of individual thought to the institutions – family, school, media, voluntary associations – of a particular culture. Adopting the prescription for this case-oriented approach requires accepting the twin ideas that universal laws are not attainable and (thus) that social scientists should be engaged in discovery. Many political psychologists will reject this idea out of hand, pointing to its single case orientation as the very thing that is wrong with

was true?" "Of course it's still true, Dave," I tell him. "The problem is, we discovered we've got two Herbies at the plant, and they're right where we don't want them. It would be as if we couldn't rearrange the boys on the trail and Herbie had a twin brother-and now they're both stuck in the middle of the line. They're holding everything up. We can't move them. We've got piles and piles of inventory stacked up in front of them. I don't know what we can do." Mom says, "Well, if they can't do the

au sein de ces autorités (notamment au sein de l’ACAM) ainsi que les échanges de personnel entre autorités, et entre l’industrie et les autorités. Enfin, l’adoption d’un modèle « par objectifs » (ce que le groupe des 30 aux Etats-Unis appelle « twin peaks approach »), à l’instar des Pays-Bas ou de l’Australie avec, d’une part, une autorité en charge de la supervision prudentielle du secteur financier (Banque et assurance) adossée à la Banque de France514 (l’AMF conservant ses attributions actuelles)