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...over the past few years and new buildings mean more faculty and more costs,” he said. “When you make those kinds of investments it means we will run some kind of operating deficit. But eventually profits come in and we reach a financial equilibrium...
...says. In Iraq, cold has been replaced by sexual insecurity. While the official agrees that the Abu Ghraib soldiers were undertrained and undersupervised, he insists that similar tactics--used more carefully--are effective. "When women have power and control over you, that sets the male psyche out of its equilibrium. He's not dominant anymore. It's not for the squeamish. But the typical Arab male will do anything to avoid it," he says. "The overall process is one of humiliating these people. And that is being used to find the people who are planting roadside bombs...
...those in Yunlin, who are now drawn to Chen and his "Taiwan first" message. On the other are old-line supporters wary of pandering to independence-minded Taiwanese. At the same time, the KMT must make room for ambitious Young Turks anxious to climb the ranks, negotiate a new equilibrium within its Pan-Blue alliance and reverse a plunge in assets that forced the party, once the world's richest, to miss payroll for five days earlier this month. Many expect the KMT, facing so many loose ends, to unravel. "We're seeing it decline into something pitiful," says Byron...
...words carefully - and advises Gould to do the same - Nelms seems to regard a lot of what passes for state-of-the art training as outmoded, with an overemphasis on quantity. His own views on this topic aren't easy to grasp. (Both he and Gould use terms - "functional equilibrium," "sensory integration," "chemical energy system" - that don't cast much light.) But for simplicity's sake they might be boiled down to the idea that gifted swimmers know instinctively how to move in water and a lot of instruction only interferes with the process. "You've heard of horse whisperers...
...high school, when we seemed to reach the equilibrium of casual acquaintance, Christina always felt like a child to me, crystallized in the role she’d played by my side for so long. While I marveled at her accomplishments, I was always struck by what I saw as her lingering carefree nature, her almost intimidating purity of intent. She was removed from my vision for the most part, but when I saw her, I felt a pang of regret. The distance was alienating, but it brought nostalgia for the Christina I had known...