What they gave Ms. Hay was the chance to expand her own experimental practice, which requires that a performer make an exacting effort to explore different states of consciousness.
The socialization we all go through in this country, because it is so thoroughly imbued with anti-black messaging and imagery, creates a bias most of us most exact active effort to counterbalance.
With the sort of hit-and-run tactics they were employing, small numbers of guerrillas appeared capable of holding out for long periods, and exacting the maximum effort from the NATO and Afghan forces to defeat them.
Therefore, reputations built on years of exacting and strenuous effort can be destroyed with a few adroitly placed keystrokes.
For years, though, all efforts to exact an official apology, much less legal redress, achieved little.
"The interest from the doctor and hospital community has accelerated," Tom Richards, a senior executive at Cigna, said of efforts to exact savings and improve care.
The bureau is wary of endangering its relations with the local police agencies by appearing to seize control, and an expanded federal presence could complicate efforts to exact the maximum penalty if and when the sniper is caught.
"Fortunately, Hunter's efforts to exact his revenge by telling lies to the government are directly contradicted by the statements made to the government investigators of Marion Jones's former coach, who has supported everything Marion has said: that she never used performance-enhancing drugs.
Today, when people speak of a "national missile defence" for America, they usually mean a more modest shield, able to ward off a few missiles not a massed attack by Russia.Somewhere between these extremes lie two ambitious Pentagon efforts, whose exact status is hotly debated.
Despite the intense scientific efforts, the exact molecular mechanisms of CNO remain unknown.
