Long-term exposure to stress may lead to permanent changes in the brain, some experts think.
Some companies are considering permanent changes in the way they calculate their share.
But it has not done so without major, and evidently permanent changes in the way companies buy air transportation, he said.
The commission banned short-selling in some financial stocks for a time, and some investors, supported by members of Congress, demanded permanent changes in the rules.
So drugs and alcohol can actually lead to permanent changes in the way the brain works — in particular, many experts think, a greater likelihood of addiction in adulthood.
Because obesity is a chronic illness, it requires long-term lifestyle changes unless surgery is performed to effect permanent changes in the digestion of food.
"It suggests that if we want long-term changes in body weight, we will need to make long-term, permanent changes in the environment for children," he said.
Mr. Pataki owes it to New Yorkers to rise above his petty squabbling with Mr. Bruno to achieve permanent changes in the law that ease the rules for ballot access and that otherwise advance principles of democracy and fair competition.
"It suggests that if we want long-term changes in body weight, we will need to make long-term, permanent changes in the environment for children," he told The New York Times when the report was published.
Given Barker's frequent caustic references to "modern-day hereditarians," perhaps the most ironic turn in the story of the Barker hypothesis is its convergance with a new field of biology known as epigenetics, which refers to the way environmental factors can produce permanent changes in the activity of genes.
These clouds have been implicated as possible harbingers of permanent changes in the upper atmosphere.
