Many neuroscience programs are interdepartmental and take on the structure of an institute rather than a department.
Without an experienced white handler to take on the power structures of the music industry and the larger world, Ellington knew he would never break the color bar and gain widespread commercial success.
After Mrs. Freed started to take on the local power structure, a gang of Indian youths smashed the windows of her husband's tow trucks, drove their riding mower into their house trailer, slashed their tires and "slugged one of my boys in the face".
Explain that you aren't making a fuss about the pay scale (I think you need to pick your battles, and taking on the company's pay structure isn't one of them), but ask if he can explain why you have historically been paid more than your colleagues.
"When we went in, we staked everything on taking on the heads of the criminal structure, going after the bosses," he told me.
According to Joshua Ramus -- a partner at Koolhaas's firm, Office of Metropolitan Architecture, who is in charge of American projects -- no American contractor wanted to take on the building's highly unusual structure, which is folded like a gigantic mesh party napkin.
The complete protocol took on the order of 8 minutes per structure, and since a total of 3720 structures were generated, the complete CPU time for this stage was about 500 hours.
With the transformation of Judaism into an ecclesiastical institution, largely on the model of German Protestant churches, its ideas and structures took on the cast of its environment in a way quite unlike what had ensued in its earlier confrontations with various philosophical systems.
Square's COO Keith Rabois says that along with simplifying the payments experience for businesses, it is also taking on the hidden fees and teaser rate structure that have plagued the credit card industry.
A former Spanish colony, occupied by Morocco since 1975, the Western Sahara remains a contested zone, on whose fringes 160,000 Sahrawi refugees live in camps that have taken on the structure of formalised towns.
He will say it is possible that we will discover in the future that language appeared in the human brain as a consequence of some as yet unknown physical law: perhaps biological systems like brains throw up a linguistic structure once they reach a certain level of complexity, in the way that certain compounds take on the structure of crystals.
