For example, you may be blown away by the structure of something, like a soccer ball or a geodesic dome, with its hexagonal shapes.
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To achieve the building's effect, Mr. Ma created an envelope inspired by the structure of nerve tissue, which wraps around the 29 stories of curtain windows.
Pioneering work by two American economists, Jonathan Gruber and David Wise, has shown that retirement decisions are greatly influenced by the structure of pensions and other benefits.
He said they had looked throughout at the difficulties created by the structure of the legislation but it was impossible to pre-empt the outcome without first knowing the "shape of the evidence".
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And the majority of the episodes were variably uneven, hardly devoid of brilliance and the sort of hilarity that most currently running shows can't even approach, but usually diluted to an infuriating degree by the structure and lack of structure of the endeavor.
Another potential approach by which Congress could increase tax fairness and reduce the deficit is by reforming the structure of particular tax expenditures.
But the Moulinex story is also a cautionary tale about European business, because its fate was ultimately decided by the control structure that resulted from its merger at the end of last year with Brandt, the Italian offshoot of El.
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Viewing the Atlantis orbiter perched on the launch pad and protected by the service structure made it seem very fragile, even though it was made to travel over 100 times the speed of sound.
The study findings may be explained in part by the changing structure of American families, Bernstein suggests.
SU(3), and found that, by manipulating the structure, he was able to reproduce the interactions of the real world.
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Even the designers and owners of the Sears Tower did not include the antennae in its announced height (at least not until their 23-year-old record was challenged by the Malaysian structure).
Smith has an opportunity to learn from the impressive success of Medicaid reform under Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, in which Indiana was actually able to expand coverage by shifting the structure of Medicaid insurance from the traditional, World War II model to a modern, consumer-driven one.
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Brown said the building, "like many other pre-existing buildings in Iraq, had not been grounded or bonded by the contractors who built the structure, " and she said KBR had warned the military about the hazard nine months before Maseth died.
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If an organization like MITRE, that does complex consulting, often for highly secret government projects, can structure an ecosystem that supports such collaborative consulting then surely most any kind of organization can thrive by creating the social structure that benefits all stakeholders, including their customers, employees, vendors and the media that covers their sector.
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In the current structure, by the time permission comes down the reporting chain, these challenges might just turn into disruptors.
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Which is not to say that there aren't some serious questions to be asked about the institutional structure chosen by the government for closing this particular stable door.
While the online workshops organized by the Berkley Center helped her structure the video, tackling technical problems like matching audio clips with powerpoints were still challenging tasks.
This type of complexity is self-created by the way we structure and manage our organizations.
And children were "bored rigid" by the same lesson structure again and again, she added.
Suppose a high minimum wage, by pressing on the structure of pay differentials, raises wage growth and hence inflation across the economy.
Rather than develop its own drugs, GlycoFi has come up with a process that can make better drugs more efficiently by controlling the sugar structure around proteins in drugs.
By transforming the social structure through economic alliances, corporations and their partners in government and the nonprofit sector may be able to promote social change through aggressive corporate philanthropy and citizenship.
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The Financial Services Bill will replace the structure - introduced by the previous Labour government - under which oversight is shared between the Bank of England, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the Treasury.
Many people in the former Soviet Union still believe that to succeed in America you must be given the green light by the existing power structure -- a system all too prevalent throughout Russian history.
In a very public battle with Liberty Media's (nasdaq: LCAPA - news - people ) John Malone, a part owner of IAC whose ownership would be diluted by the new voting structure of the company, Diller called Malone "insane" and Malone brought Diller to court trying to get him thrown off the board.
For example, the Wales Office's travel and subsistence policy on air travel is governed by the airline's fare structure and the duration of the flight.
As the crowds moved through and around the extraordinary structure, gilded by the setting sun, it came suddenly and stunningly to life, its eccentricities forgotten.
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Inside it works well, with the steep walls of seating adding to the drama provided by the sinuously undulating roof of the core structure.
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While the old pier was held up by wooden pilings, the new structure likely will be built with a mix of wooden and concrete supports and made to meet tougher standards set by Seaside Heights and the state.
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