WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - A federal appeals court threw up a surprise obstacle on Wednesday to the Bush administration's plan to transfer Jose Padilla from military custody to face terrorism charges in a civilian court.
And that is why they are grateful for surprises, obstacles, and even disappointments.
No one should have been surprised by the obstacles to growth cited by the Fed — high unemployment, modest income gains, lower housing wealth and tight credit.
SAPTA's shortcomings left no one surprised, given the obstacles at the time: the persistence of protectionist sentiment among member countries, a lack of substantial tariff reduction measures, outright exclusion of several large sectors of trade from tariff reduction, domestic crises, and tense relations.
By accepting, we arm ourselves to move forward more quickly despite the often complicated nature of life. 1. Accept that you will encounter surprises, challenges, shocks, obstacles, problems, hardships and disappointments.
VR game designers can learn a lot from Immersive Theater, for starters: (1) establish the world; this is where movie franchises are useful (2) present an obvious challenge (e.g., escape), (3) force people to work together (4) surprise us with unexpected obstacles (e.g., live actors playing FBI Agents), and (5) like any good storyteller, leave them wanting more.
I think my readers may be surprised by how many obstacles there now are.
By Preston and Dillon's account of how Mexico got here, any other result would have been a surprise, for the biggest obstacle to a democratic future for Mexico remains its authoritarian past.
The biggest obstacle to surprise releases is the way the music business often buckles under complex licensing systems that can take this light-speed ideal of digital delivery and slow it to a sluggish crawl.
So, no surprise -- the biggest obstacle to your success is found between your two ears.
