This victory for common sense follows a string of positive steps already taken by President Obama to dismantle his predecessor's assault on women's reproductive health and freedom.
But his movement for two men and two women — one on point, one not — was both tentative and meandering, a string of ballet steps that felt unconnected and monotone, as the dancers wound through endless entrances and exits, pairings and solos.
Typical proteomic study consists of a string of multiple steps each of which can be validated by different orthogonal methods.
And there's a nice image of his amorous befuddlement when he's left on the spot in bourrées (those little string-of-pearls traveling steps that look less foolish when performed by a woman on point).
The selection of Mr. Immelt, who was at Mr. Obama's side during his trip to India last year, and again this week during the visit of President Hu Jintao of China, is the latest in a string of pro-business steps taken by the president.
The most recent, published this month, revealed that professionals missed a string of chances to step in and save two-year-old Keanu Williams, who was murdered by his mother, Rebecca Shuttleworth.
Except that the relative value of breaking news is diminishing, Reuters' financial customers are retrenching and, thanks to a string of operational mis-steps since the company was taken over five years ago by Canada's Thomson Group, the historic business is facing an unprecedented identity crisis.
A string of US celebrities stepped forward to urge the government to drop the case, among them the anti-war actor Sean Penn, the Rev Jesse Jackson, and Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, who called the Koza email potentially more important than the documents he made public during the Vietnam war.
The Proclamation, though symbolically important, was simply the latest in a long string of high-profile emancipatory steps by the federal government.
Indeed, a string of such economy-supporting steps taken since late last year appear to have borne fruit — so much so that some analysts sa the turnaround that Ms. Yao projects for the third quarter may, in fact, already have happened.
