The sodium channel opening at the beginning of a nerve impulse is like releasing a compressed spring. Without other influences, there is a tendency to keep reverberating, leading to additional, unwanted nerve impulses.

If it is a beginning to pave the way, he's got an awful long way to go yet. The public doesn't like Camilla. The sympathy is very much still with Diana who is seen as much more glamorous.

I'm very pleased with where we are right now. At the beginning of the season our goal was to make the playoffs and here we are.

Just as there were excesses at the beginning -- the early feminists [tried] to rule out a lot of the sexuality and frivolity and, you know, they demonized Barbie and Cosmo girl in high heels and shopping and a lot of the fun stuff women like -- at the end, you know, they are equally sort of into conformity, but completely the opposite way,

Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.

By and large we've ended up better than many of the forecasts that were made at the beginning of 2005 and the reason is that economic growth has held up much better than people expected.