Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

Without China's goods exports, the U.S. CPI (consumer price index) should have risen about two (more) percentage points.

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

[But the effectiveness of the response to Katrina appears to diminish the higher you move up the chain of command. By Sept. 7, Lott concluded that FEMA and its Mississippi arm were overwhelmed and understaffed, and he went straight to circumvention mode.] We're just going around them, ... We talk to people on the ground, and they tell us what they need.

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

Our common points outnumber our differences.