separates
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One of the settlement’s most onerous requirements—at which investment banks have bristled for years—was the firewall that separates investment banking from research analysts.
Their measurements also revealed emergent photon signals near zero energy -- a defining trait that separates quantum spin ice from more familiar phases found in conventional magnets.
From Science Daily
U.S. factory activity has contracted for nine straight months, with the Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index for manufacturing at 48.2 in November, below the 50 mark that separates expansion from contraction.
This is all that separates Russian ally Belarus from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic coast.
From BBC
Discovery separates its company, spinning off its cable channels into a new publicly traded company.
From Los Angeles Times
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