He joked, that night on the periphery of the dark rail yard, that he had taken his life's work back to its root essentials: one track, one switch, one purpose.
As an animator, Lasseter is trained to strip movement back to its most essential gestures, and that in effect is his management style.
Efficient coenzyme recycling by recombinant enzymes converting the oxidized coenzyme back to its reduced form is essential for the productivity of reductive whole-cell biotransformations.
But there is a back story to this move and a strong hint that this single move may, in the not too distant future, lead Microsoft back to its roots and re-inject that essential startup DNA back into the corporate giant.
Only now are Brazilians starting to cast a critical eye on a state that Sérgio Abranches, a political scientist, has called an "anaemic leviathan".Some of the critics want to pare the state back to its essentials an idea most of Lula's ministers reject as "the neo-liberal concept of a minimal state".
Its sources, however, are to be found in earlier baptismal creeds, most probably in the Old Roman Symbol, which appears to go back in its essentials to the 2nd century.
It's functional, utilitarian, pared back to bare essentials to allow the numbers to do the talking.
Yet the storm and that soccer ball have kicked me back to running essentials.
Cut back to the essentials and make conscious decisions about what improves or beautifies your life while discarding the rest.
