How to Fail to Recover

Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain's incredible power its ability to actively re wire itself. He's researching ways to harness the brain's plasticity to enhance our skills and recover lost function.

With everyone busy deleveraging, economies failed to recover.

Predicted growth rates remain high and, although global and regional patterns have fluctuated from year to year (most recently owing to fears over terrorism, health crises (e.g. SARs) and natural disasters), tourism has shown a strong and rapid ability to recover.

The average time to recover is one to six months.

The government is unlikely to recover its investment anytime soon.

They will be quicker to recover their levels of employment.

The US and global economy will recover, to be sure.

Economy has been destroyed and might take years to recover.

How can America recover international legitimacy?

That's where the ability to engineer microbes, the ability to engineer tissues, and the ability to engineer robots begin to lead to a reboot.

This was why my government sought to recover stolen state property.

The buyer sued the Austrian middleman to recover the advance payment.

The eurozone economy could then recover quickly.

The United Nations must recover its mission.

Chinese cities seek to counter uniformity via campaigns to recover their unique spirit.

The stock and housing markets are unlikely to recover any time soon.

But Obama was quick to recover from mistakes in a practical way.

Likewise, Brazil s growth has been dented, but now looks set to recover.

You may be able to recover the data, but not understand it.

(b) Delays in the evaluation and corrective measures to recover these delays.

Their determination to recover lost ground, both physically and politically, is undiminished.

During the exploitation phase, the applicant is entitled to recover these costs.

Victims must be given the opportunity to recover in a stable environment.

UNIDO has also developed a programme to rehabilitate and recover degraded land.

Small island developing States that would graduate from least developed country status would become, in a relatively short time, ineligible for concessionary or preferential treatment, which would severely restrict their ability to recover, for example, from natural disasters and economic shocks to which they are particularly vulnerable.

Those three trends are the ability to engineer cells, the ability to engineer tissues, and robots.

We must help societies and markets recover their vitality.

Terror may add to the time India will need to recover from the economic crisis.

This steady flow of debt relief is allowing US consumer spending to recover slowly.

Unfortunately, until it does, Europe is unlikely to recover fully from its current slump.

Think that Barrack Obama has to recover Americas image destroyed by George Walker Bush.

You cannot recover from a stroke and return to work in a normal condition.

People with few resources or alternatives are also less able to recover from disasters.

On these occasions, a proactive approach is needed to recover and reissue the payments.

Brazil has yet to recover fully its economic dynamism and find a path to rapid growth.

These two components are (1) the ability to think clearly and make sense of complexity, which is known as eductive ability (from the Latin root educere , meaning to draw out ) and (2) the ability to store and reproduce information, known as reproductive ability.

Whether trade will recover next year is an open question.

Creditors of a corporation cannot recover debts from a shareholder.

This effort to recover uniqueness is largely the cause of the international system s growing fragmentation.

To the extent that this sense of decline is grounded in reality, can Japan recover?

It was write offs and devaluations, not austerity programs, that allowed bond prices to recover.

Any timing required to recover data from the communication symbols is encoded within the symbols.

Man has the ability to talk.

To be sure, an eventual US recovery is inevitable, but job growth usually takes longer to recover.