Malinowski found that kula cements social bonds between island groups, and according to anthropologist Richard Harper this makes it an ideal basis for new ways to make technology useful.
Conversely, even in the most cosmopolitan of line-ups, where you're lucky if English is the second language for half the squad, nothing cements international peace and brotherhood as effectively as success.
The plant, which will initially produce 100,000 cars a year beginning in 2006, cements Guangdong's favoured-location status with Japanese carmakers.
As boys become men, they enter a working world that often reinforces the psychologically debilitating lessons of their childhood, a world where humiliation cements hierarchies in place.
It cements the commonly held view that the former prime minister has long been a useful, though informal, mediator and adviser to both sides in the cross-strait face-off between China and Taiwan.
Now, 13 years after his information technology firm was born, McSherry's drive is paying off as Prosys Business Solutions cements its reputation a one of the country's most innovative companies.
