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A shiver of excitement strikes the line of people waiting four-breast outside Theodore Roosevelt's front gate, and runs in serpentine reflex along Pennsylvania Avenue as far as Seventeenth Street, before whipping south and dissipating itself over half a mile a way.
For example, the presence of neocortical malformations in certain strains of inbred mice are correlated with better performance on tasks of spatial reference memory [ 17 18 ] . On the other hand, induced microgyric animals show a variety of behavioral deficits that suggest disturbances to multiple brain systems [ 15 19 20 21 22 ] . Rapid auditory processing deficits have been found in males with induced microgyria using both an operant condition paradigm and a reflex modification paradigm [ 15 19 20 21 ] . In both paradigms, auditory processing deficits were found only on rapidly changing stimuli, and not when these same stimuli were delivered at slower rates.
This aspect of language should not be construed solely as a demonstration of knowledge (as in knowing how many symphonies Beethoven wrote, whether Caruso was a tenor or a bass, or being able to hum melodies from Puccini's operas), though that is certainly a reflex of a cultured individual.
And I hate saying that, because it makes me look like some middlebrow reflex Francophile or something.
What both the Aetna and Union Pacific stories illuminate is the degree to which downsizing has become simply a reflex decision for many managers.