Word: lockstep
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...Beijing, the fallout from the standoff is likely to force the more reformist element of China's leadership to march in lockstep with the conservatives, forcing them to default to more suspicious and hostile positions towards the West. Is this a concern of the Bush administration...
Although small companies are not immune to the lockstep nature of the global economy (many sell to multinationals), in general they remain far more leveraged to their home markets. The stock of, say, a retailer in India is less likely to be dragged down by a U.S. recession. Yet that same recession would clearly hurt a big Indian technology exporter...
...very romantic-French-novel Week 10 episode that proved the reports - here and elsewhere - of the decline of "Survivor 2" were greatly exaggerated, the Ogakor alliance abandoned its sensible lockstep and abruptly swallowed Jerri in a delightfully shocking Tribal Council. Then it spit her out. It was just the icing on what, undoubtedly, was this "Survivor's finest hour...
...premier planet-hunting team--astronomer Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues--presented not one but two remarkable finds. The first is a pair of planets, each about the mass of Jupiter, that whirl around their home star 15 light-years from Earth in perfect lockstep. One takes 30 days to complete an orbit, the other exactly twice as long. Nobody has ever seen such a configuration...
...immune response, the APC coughs up a molecule from the bug it has eaten, latches on to a helper T cell and "presents" it with a target molecule, instructing the T cell to prepare its troops for war. This activation is tightly controlled; it cannot occur without the lockstep interaction of several proteins on both cells--one of which is known...