Bill Browder went from being Russia's largest foreign investor to being blacklisted from that country. The CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, Browder was once a supporter of President Putin - that is until he was expelled from Russia in 2005 after being considered a threat to national security..
A contig is a set of overlapping DNA segments that together represent a consensus region of DNA. In bottom-up sequencing projects, a contig refers to overlapping sequence data; in top-down sequencing projects, contig refers to the overlapping clones that form a physical map of the genome that is used to guide sequencing and assembly.
See -lig-. n. 1  something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc. 2  something that is done or is to be done for such reasons:to fulfill one's obligations.  a binding promise, contract, sense of duty, etc.