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symbiosis

sim bahy oh suhs

  • n  the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other

  • If so, the situation offers a look at how a native-born faith built partially on American economic optimism entered into a toxic symbiosis with a pathological market.
  • The computer has erased the difference between work and play--YouTube, Web comics, online TV series--and nowhere is this symbiosis more important than in music.
  • All too often, the symbiosis between Mafia legend and reality only adds to the difficulty in trying to dismantle it.
News & Articles

  • Study of insect bacteria reveals genetic secrets of symbiosis
    Microbiologists recently delved deeper into the genes involved in the "tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis." The researchers discovered the already complex three-way symbiosis actually depends on genes from six different organisms -- three more than the number of species that currently exist in the symbiosis.
    June 20, 2013 - Science Daily
  • Startup-PR Matchmaker AirPR Opens To The Public, As Data Begins To Reveal How To Fix A Broken Model
    For pretty much as long as anyone can remember, a relationship triangle, or a "love triangle" if you will, has taken shape between companies and the PR firms that represent them and the press that covers them -- existing in some sort of recursive loop. Yet, while that triangle should have come to represent a symbiosis and a valuable communication network, somewhere along the way the triangle ...
    June 19, 2013 - TechCrunch
Quotes

  • Donald Tusk in United Press International (subscription)
    We shoulder the responsibility to prevent changes that could lastingly disturb the symbiosis between humankind and nature,Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at the opening of the meeting.
  • Roberto Donadoni in Earthtimes (press release)
    Between us there is something special, a symbiosis that goes beyond the relationship between coach and footballer. Some do not like that, but it is OK for me that it is that way. I have always been serene,Donadoni said.
  • Neal Gabler in New York Times
    What makes 2008 different - and why I think Mr. McCain can be called the first post-modernist presidential candidate - is his acknowledgment of the symbiosis between himself and the press,the author Neal Gabler wrote recently in an Op-Ed...

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