The museum, it said, lacked "aesthetic appeal, organizational coherence, and the perception of substantive balance".
Mr. Glass, 64, arrived in 2002, shortly after a commission appointed by the Smithsonian's Board of Regents submitted a stinging report on the museum in which it noted a lack of "aesthetic appeal, organizational coherence and the perception of substantive balance".
(Maybe I was really just being a grumpy customer complaining about having to schedule cleanings several weeks in advance, but in my head, at least, it was a more substantive question about balancing supply and demand).
Applications should present a rationale that carefully balances important substantive, methodologic, and budgetary issues.
They meet each year for an annual retreat in Belize or another Central American destination, as well as occasionally in New York and other cities for outings described as "a balance of fun, substantive programs and bonding".
But that should not obscure the main point: their assertion that missile defenses, specifically SM-3 IIB interceptors, will threaten Russian ICBMs and thereby undermine the strategic balance now has no substantive basis.
Results demonstrate the difficulty in successfully achieving diets with desired PF and k values, and in achieving diets with ranges in PF, but that changes in diet PF and k had no substantive impact on intake, digestion, N balance, milk production or MN supply to the duodenum.
He should move beyond unpersuasive and vague pledges to balance security against privacy, to substantive guidelines that limit the overreaching of N.S.A. surveillance programs abroad and at home.
One new work, one early 20th-century work and one old work, all of them substantive: that's the kind of programming balance more major American orchestras should emulate.
"It should be examined in a way that's substantive, that's thorough and that's balanced so that we arrive at the truth".
