When idealists say that we "make the stars," they don't mean that we make them the way a brickmaker makes a brick; rather, they mean that we make them conceptually, right down to the elementary particles of which they consist.
To systematically approach the idea and to ensure not to overlook any potential solutions, in the TEPHA framework, the different products are clustered and broken down to their elementary functions.
Slowly but surely, the dialogue is coming down to the elementary level, and parents can step in more easily now than ever.
The battle has come down to something so elementary as to be beyond dispute: ripping the curtain of secrecy from fund-raising that the public thought it had outlawed back in the dark Watergate days.
Nor do we need to court the New Age crowd by echoing their familiar refrain, rooted in a thoroughly unsound grasp of subatomic physics, that, when one analyzes matter down to a certain elementary level, it loses its material character altogether and thereby shows itself to be somehow more mind-like.
"It's like I have to go from a Ph.D. down to being an elementary school kid," Chou said.
A swarm of bikers rode down to a Nova Scotian elementary school this week in a bid to make life better for a bullied fourth grader.
And so by giving up our right to bear arms, we would gain something else profound, so profound no American today can enjoy it -- the right to security, to go the movies and not fear being gunned down, to send our children to elementary school and not worry about them being gunned down, to go to the mall to go Christmas shopping and not fear being gunned down.
In the end, the argument comes down to a matter of elementary economics: when a working stiff demands a pay raise, it causes inflation and threatens the nation's prosperity; when a C.E.O.
