optics

The optics are also a prize for the crown prince.

Others will be told to sell assets to pay for their upkeep - although officials are trying to avoid the PR optics of the controversial Danish policy of taking jewellery off people.

"In nonlinear optics, light can be reshaped to create new colors, faster pulses or optical switches that turn signals on and off," said Kunyan Zhang, a Rice doctoral alumna and first author of the study.

Players are going to have to be more adept with their public image and optics.

These buyouts are absurd, an outgrowth of a crazed marketplace and undeniably screwy optics at a state university.