The practical side of shemira might have gotten lost with the invention of mortuaries, but what's stayed the same over the centuries, is that the vigil is carried out by people called "shomrim".
Despite its eclecticism, In Search Of... is virtually flab-free and little of its craft and invention is lost on stage.
When the rock star's content stays the same, he's lost the process of invention, and no amount of leather trouser or hair dye can save him.
Even the things that are sent to help us end up being caught in such a webby mass of unsought influences, unsuspected ramifications and counterintuitive consequences that the original benign impulse behind their invention becomes lost to history.
The deeper his investigation takes him into the tortuous relationship between the two cities, the greater danger Borlú is in – but as the story hurtles towards its overly complicated climax, the characters become rather lost amid the political invention.
If this 1-year timeline seems harsh, consider the situation abroad: In Europe, for instance, there is no 1-year grace period--the chances of winning patent protection is lost the instant an invention becomes public.
Page deduced that Tesla died penniless because he lost control of his inventions, and it dawned on him that if he wanted to retain control of his own products and inventions, he would someday need to start his own company.
Somehow, too, Wilson's abstract inventions have lost a lot of their visual magic: a narrow rectangle of light slowly rotating from the horizontal to the vertical to the accompaniment of Glass's churning patterns isn't quite the iconic image it once was.
One is that Amgen's patents are expiring, probably too fast for the company to make up the lost revenue with new inventions.
The old hotbeds of invention (the Northeast and Midwest) lost much of their prominence, and rates of invention in Western states grew considerably.
