Medicine prolongs life and slows aging, but personal satisfaction is as elusive a commodity as it was for Dorian Gray.
But, Matthew Kelly, the head of Floyd Consulting, reminds the couple that work-life balance may be elusive for a reason.
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Successful subscription models for music have proved elusive for a similar reason.
An 11th-hour settlement still could be reached before the trial starts Monday or even after it has begun but it is not surprising that a deal has proved elusive thus far in such a complex case, said David Uhlmann, a University of Michigan law professor and former chief of the Justice Department's environmental crimes section.
Dibinga treated his search as a safari of sorts, looking for an elusive creature, in a very creative video.
But even with more orchestrated songs of love and hope, Infinite Light remains somewhat elusive, with a sound that belongs, unmistakably, to Lightning Dust.
It is an especially elusive quest for a pro football player.
One such elusive item is a phone running software from Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) new Android mobile-software platform.
He says he was trying to remember a Tchaikovsky piece he once knew quite well, but now it is as elusive as the meaning of a dream.
And in many cases, low printing costs seemed elusive as part of a total package.
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Toyota's just-arrived RAV4 EV will soon get a much smaller cousin -- albeit a very elusive one.
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What could happen in beta decay is another elusive issue, but a new particle could be implicated there.
But where Oberst's persona is wide-eyed and vulnerable, O'Brien's is brooding and elusive, making Becoming a Jackal a beautiful but emotionally and sonically complicated album.
Drivers can often be heard talking about their teams needed to improve their cars, about finding the elusive few tenths of a second per lap that will move them up the grid.
What she remembered most about her mother was the patchouli scent of her skin, underneath which hid a more elusive, dirty smell, an odor that Candy yearned to excavate whenever Sylvie was near.
But achieving speed and friendliness of service across the chain has been a particularly elusive goal, at least in part because about 90% of McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. are owned by independent operators.
An enthralling day began with Watson trying to reach the elusive maiden century with a boundary but playing over the top with an attempted pull at Benn's quicker one and seeing his middle stump knocked back.
And although Mehmet Simsek, the economy minister, has repeatedly hinted that it should be extended, a deal remains elusive.
And still out there waiting to be created is that most elusive of breakthroughs--a nanoscale "universal computer" that can do any kind of computation.
With a little luck, you may even see a rare and elusive Florida panther slipping past you on his way to dinner.
Why would Emmanuelle, whose erotic adventures taught a generation the elusive art of sensual love, return from space to counsel freshman congressmen?
Michael Eisenstadt, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, warns that the elusive loyalists may be planning a campaign of guerrilla resistance.
In other words, while it may be the case that you can make the math work, the logic of such a combination is elusive.
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The elusive particle is part of a theory first proposed by physicist Peter Higgs and others in the 1960s to explain how particles obtain mass.
All this is moving toward an elusive goal: to find a "buy button" inside the skull and to test products, packaging and advertising for their ability to activate it.
But sadly, as your heart rate rises and that familiar burn permeates your muscles, the self-assurance you seek remains elusive, replaced instead by a silent war that wages within your brain.
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During November talks in Annapolis, Maryland, Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed on a framework for future peace talks and said they were optimistic they could seal a long-elusive peace agreement by 2009.
Yet some 10, 000 snowboarding fans, typically a group too elusive for marketers, at times have spent up to nine hours on Sikko's site discussing their hobbies and buying habits and rating skins created by designer pros.
Providing performance picks up it could yet become an example of a hedge fund that is capable of making profits year in, year out, with a long-term ownership structure: a formula as elusive as that behind any black-box trade.
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