The tone was set the minute Nick Clegg took his first potshot at his erstwhile boss: everyone against David Cameron, big guns scrapping among themselves, smaller ones largely ignored.
The incorporation of earlier bits, conscientiously mentioned in the catalog, would invite derision from connoisseurs, amused at some erstwhile dealer's trick meant to take in inexperienced buyers.
Mr. Unger said he was not angry at his erstwhile British publisher, but rather unnerved by his crash course in British libel law.
Bosses at other erstwhile high-flying firms, such as 3M, Procter & Gamble, Eastman Kodak and Motorola, also know that they are being watched.European and Japanese firms could soon find themselves in the same situation.
Looking at my erstwhile girlfriends through his eyes, I didn't like them any less, but I began to see how lost they were, in their delinquent, neglected-child glamour, their sexual precocity.
After Alex Gibney's rigorous four-hour Sinatra study All or Nothing at All, erstwhile Wham! boss Simon Napier-Bell's plucky Brit equivalent appears patchy indeed, cobbling together washed-out, publicly sourced archive footage with variable-quality talking heads.
Last week he predicted that the sale of Greece's biggest piece of real estate at Athens' erstwhile Hellenikon airport would be concluded in June, boosting proceeds from state sales this year to more than €2bn.
"We do not tolerate behaviour that deviates from our ethical standards," it said, mindful no doubt of the fate of Arthur Andersen, the auditing firm which was forced to disband after the disclosure of its role in the scandals at its erstwhile client, Enron.
On each trip, while waiting for Muhammad Rahman, the dauntless proprietor, to prepare my lunch, I read a poem posted on the cart, written for Rahman by Thane DiMatims*, formerly a staffer at the erstwhile Gotham Book Mart; and I am sadly reminded of how one of the city's peerless bookshops, which opened in 1920, was forced to auction off its entire inventory last year.
