Japanese institutions were archaic and pursued mistaken economic strategies and structures.

The country became characterized by immobility and atavism.

Hurricanes are measured according to three dimensions frequency, intensity, and duration.

Observe your subject's posture, laugh, vocal quality.

Some officers are all of these, and most are some of them.

Whether someone is charismatic or not, voters want a figurehead, and preferably one with celebrity value.

Foreigners and residents might well grow disenchanted with the currency of an economy with these characteristics.

Everyone has a female body now, or, more properly, a feminized body.

The cycles are linked to other elements, such as the hydrological cycle and astronomical constellations.

The rule of law has been defined in a variety of ways, but most authorities agree on certain key characteristics.

The Families of Plants with their natural characters...Translated from the last edition of Linnaeus Genera Plantarum .

And it will occur (if it does) in a global economy with fundamentally different structural and regulatory characteristics.

A trained lie spotter can get to the truth by learning about statement structure, facial micro expressions, question formation and timing.

Unfortunately, availability of information and growing connections between virtual and real personalities make online harassment as real as it gets.

Perhaps the coastal areas of South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and China s eastern seaboard share some common cultural characteristics and a similar economic strategy.

While there is nothing remotely human about them, when running away to avoid my wrath they do seem to possess some human characteristics.

Morales and Chávez always emphasize their humble origins in order to appeal emotionally to those who share those characteristics with them, and to blackmail those who do not.

So experimenters will be looking for new particles with the right properties to provide the astronomical dark matter very long lived and very feebly interacting with ordinary matter or light.

If so, a whole new world of particles will be discovered each currently known particle will have a heavier relative its superpartner with different, but predictable, properties.

The AI in the game was more advanced the five AIs known as Nemesis, Bullit, Frost, Ranger, and Chump featured different driving characteristics.

As Darwin did not believe that pure aesthetics would guide female peacocks and lions in their choice of mating partners, he had to find a rational reason for females preference for males with hindering characteristics. The very fact, he reasoned, that these features make life harder signals to prospective partners that individuals who can do reasonably well with them have an especially good genetic set up and are thus likely to produce strong offspring.

We do not know what Deng s desired set of economic arrangements for a system of socialism with Chinese characteristics was, and, in all likelihood, he did not know, either.

As Darwin did not believe that pure aesthetics would guide female peacocks and lions in their choice of mating partners, he had to find a rational reason for females preference for males with hindering characteristics.

From there, it is not uncommon to hear the conclusion that we are nothing but chimpanzees (and fated to be aggressive, or to possess whatever attributes are being imputed to apes these days), or that apes merit human rights.

Any fund manager who claims to have been deluded by the apparently favorable risk yield characteristics of CMOs or related credit instruments can be accused of having fallen for Milton Friedman s free lunch.

Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting.

So, one of the fundamental problems we have in cancer is that, right now, we describe it by a number of adjectives, symptoms I'm tired, I'm bloated, I have pain, etc.

Chaym recalls that the idea of editing a magazine with these characteristics was first inspired by the spontaneous reaction of a German girl, who when she arrived in Bolivia and saw the women wearing the traditional shawls, skirts and bowler hats, exclaimed This country is full of princesses!