Despite the "Better Together" unity campaign that won by a margin of about 10 percentage points in September, the issue of Scottish independence has retained vigor.
The longer Alibaba waits, provided it retains corporate vigor, the better off Yahoo is.
"This is an experiment going on with unsuspecting people who are living on the hope that this will somehow help them retain their youth and vigor," said Dr. Robert N. Butler, a professor of geriatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Dr. Cecilia Barnbaum, a professor of physics and astronomy at Valdosta State University in Georgia, who had collaborated with Dr. Keenan since 1993, recalled that he retained his intellectual vigor far into old age.
Yet, to a remarkable degree, his body retains its youthful vigor, and his stride, when he reached the sidewalk, called to mind the twenty-three-year-old who bounded across the grass at Shea Stadium in 1965, and the twenty-seven-year-old who strode barefoot over the zebra crossing on the cover of "Abbey Road".
He's still working, and doing some of the best work of his entire career: his last two albums, "Rant" and "Shrunken Heads," retained all the vigor of his earlier records, but added in extra wisdom, and he has a new album, "Man Overboard," coming out this summer.
It operates under a simple administrative structure, which co-ordinates the activities of the participating bodies while allowing them to retain their own identities and vigor.
Climbing back above that figure would be a welcome sign that American democracy retains some of its vigor.
Through most of that time it has retained its freshness and vigor, although at a Mendelssohn series at Zankel Hall in 2005 its sound seemed uncharacteristically frayed.
Only through strength and by exercising leadership with vigor and prudence will we be able to keep peace and retain our freedom.
