(1) Yet such a strategy does not signify polar opposition between tradition and modernity, endogenous and exogenous .(2) Consider that most recessions are the result of exogenous shocks: the oil crisis of 1973, the credit controls of 1980, and, of course, the war.(3) In modern times, all significant bouts of inflation have been generated by a war or exogenous oil price shocks, not by a peacetime economy that expanded beyond its sustainable limits.(4) Transgenesis refers to the process of introducing exogenous genes into the germ line of an organism.(5) External or exogenous factors were a threat to the monetary stability achieved in 1999.(6) All patients underwent toxicological analysis to exclude the presence of alcohol and other exogenous agents.(7) As predicted, many get there because of so-called exogenous shocks: a major media announcement, a celebrity endorsement, a dignitary's death.(8) In stabilizing broad measures of economic volatility, it serves to decrease exogenous risk in the markets and the economy.(9) This theory stipulates that people are motivated by calculations of abstract utility in a cost-benefit framework, informed by exogenous tastes and preferences.(10) Once again, it is endogenous, not exogenous factors that make or break a relationship.(11) Two of the papers in this volume refocus syncretism away from issues of authenticity and inauthenticity to argue for an integration and synchronisation of indigenous and exogenous elements.(12) However, the building of excess capacity is not inevitable and is not driven by exogenous factors, such as external control of markets.(13) Like addiction, pornography is an ostensibly participatory process which commensurates the organism to exogenous - and arbitrary - stimuli.(14) On many issues, Latin Americans continue to be highly vulnerable to exogenous events, trends and decisions.(15) A patient history should include attention to exogenous agents that may cause or further aggravate symptoms.(16) Doctors generally avoid prescribing hormone replacement therapy to postmenopausal women with systemic lupus erythematosus because of a widespread belief that exogenous oestrogens make the disease worse.