Despite all the problems, the core of the system remains strong, said Mr. Seligman, the dean of Washington University.
For Russia's rulers, corruption is not a happy side-effect of power, but the core of the system.
But the core of the system lies inside the colleges themselves, an admissions process fuelled by the same anxieties it generates, and controlled by its own hermetic logic.
The core of the system is still in the beta testing phase, but it allows users to design and print their own 12-page tabloid newspaper.
But Railtrack, which owns the lines and the stations and forms the core of the system, has no incentive to invest in such capacity.
Mr Murillo, a burly economist who is in charge of implementing economic reforms (officially dubbed "updating"), stressed that the core of the system remained "social property".
If the winds increase too much with altitude, the core of the system will no longer be vertically aligned over the warm surface that provides its energy.
Although the four computer rankings and two human rankings represent the core of the system, there are three other adjustments that the system makes.
But the core of the system has changed little since the Middle Ages: a "sage on a stage" teacher spouting "lessons" to rows of students.
Yet the provisions tinker only with the subsidies and structures that surround the electricity market, leaving the core of the system untouched.
Neither the Trust Fund Bureau, the core of the system, nor any other parts of the FILP have any loans to borrowers who have gone bankrupt, nor do they have any overdue loans to public institutions.
