But what makes Watson's performance surprising is that her poor performance was due to the misalignment of her menstrual cycle and the tour calendar.
This misalignment of incentives, argues Mr Thornton, explains why "it's always a cat-and-mouse game between local and central authorities".Clearing up this mess will be difficult, but not impossible.
In fact, both considerations currency misalignment and the outlook for inflation now point the same way.The 20% fall in the euro's trade-weighted value since the beginning of last year raises inflation as much as a cut in interest rates of more than two percentage points.
The size of those tariffs would reflect the scale of the undervaluation.How does the bill propose to calculate this misalignment?
SOME blame the financial crisis on a misalignment of interests between banks' executives, focused on short-term gains, and their longer-sighted shareholders.
A sharp economic slowdown in America as a result of the collapsing housing market would make this even more likely.The biggest risk comes from measures linked to China's supposed exchange-rate misalignment.
But, as with any partnership, the interests of the partners are not always in perfect alignment, and Dr Hazen thinks the processing of red meat is an example of such misalignment.
Invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their "correct" level, it was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment, merely a tool to make exchange-rate theory more digestible.
Burgernomics was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment, merely a tool to make exchange-rate theory more digestible.
This is important, says Dr Rajaratnam's colleague Elizabeth Klerman, because "we want to treat the underlying cause of jet lag or shift-work disorder: the misalignment of the inner circadian clock with the external environmental time".It is not only travellers and shift workers who might benefit if tasimelteon leaps all the hurdles that remain before it can be approved.
The company's two years of hell were mainly the result of what Mr Coggin calls a "misalignment of the planets"—the PC industry sagged just as Compaq embarked on what would have been one of the toughest mergers in the technology industry even at the best of times.
