So a sense of shock and dismay, as measured in the breathlessness of radio news reports and the size of a virtual rally on Facebook, has attended the announcement last month that the university plans to close the Cactus in August, citing, of all things, the university's own contraction.
It also features the author's own synthesis of different traditional paths to these promises, as Tai Chi Gong is his own contraction of Tai Chi Ch'uan (a martial art) and Qigong (a broad term for breathing with movement and intention).
This is done primarily by building into the arm prosthesis electrodes that are activated by the patient's own muscle contractions.
"So we're interested in the impact of oil petroleum products on our own excitation-contraction coupling, and we're interested in linking air pollution, for example – a place where petroleum products are often found, volatiles from our exhausts - to the problems of cardiac morbidity that are seen across the planet on a very smoggy day".
Breathing, with its own expansion and contraction, and its inevitability, became the method for interaction.
There will be people in your life who mirror your own now clearing contractions by voicing and animating these contractions of fear, skepticism, and doubt.
It never came, of course, and it never will because the negotiators negotiated their own settlement of the contraction dispute.
The chemicals released cause a sudden increase in permeability of the local blood vessels, the adhesion and activation of platelets (blood cell fragments that trigger clotting), which release their own active agents, the contraction of smooth muscle in the gut or in the respiratory tubes, and the secretion of fluids all of which tend to dislodge large multicellular parasites such as hookworms.
Until recently, she was part of a team often referred to as "The Schmeyers," a jokey contraction of her own name and that of her husband, Charles Shyer, the writer-director with whom she has worked for most of her career.
That means in the medium term, larger euro zone countries will need to increase their own spending to balance the contraction in demand they are imposing on their crisis-stricken neighbors.
China's own reaction to the global contraction — a huge buildup of roads, rail and other public infrastructure alongside a wave of cheap lending for private investment in construction and other projects — sucked in imports rapidly.
