If this year's Milan Furniture Fair, and the dozens of design exhibitions that took place around it, didn't seem to have quite the energy or electricity of some past years, it's no surprise: the general mood was more cautious and subdued, thanks to Europe's less-than-rosy economic picture, and many companies favored variations on existing products over new ones.
Her typical approach enhances a smooth, conversational cocktail style with a sophisticated improvisatory sparkle that favors variations on the whole-tone scale.
Here, we have used a "weak link" method to favor variations in one gene, allowing adaptation to thermostability to be studied in molecular detail as bacteria were grown continuously for ∼1500 generations.
A prolific presence on Twitter, Miranda favors variations of the phrase "secret sauce" in his high-spirited 140-character pronouncements, and it's clear that the secret sauce of his musical is the score, which brings to Broadway the sound millennials are streaming directly into their ears.
Like species and cultural development, personal evolution works best under conditions that most favor variation and change.
The Hillary example you cite is complicated because at different phases of her public career she has favored different variations of her name.
This is further evidence that natural selection favors more variation in defense response genes, while variation in translation genes are selected against, probably to maintain this fundamental biological function.
Mr. Blagojevich appears to favor a variation on the same look: dark suit, white shirt and medium blue ties.
Still, many economists with left-of-center political views favor some variation of this approach to the plan endorsed by Bush.
Fluctuating selection on body size has also been hypothesized as a factor favoring threshold variation, and thus ultimately maintaining alternative male life cycles, in Atlantic salmon (Aubin-Horth et al. 2005).
Frank Marshall favored the Exchange Variation with 4 cd ed 5 Bg5 Be7 6 e3 Nbd7 7 Bd3 O-O 8 Nf3 (or 8 Nge2).
