In a faint echo of the 1970s Congress introduced a wage-subsidy scheme last year.
In a faint echo of Argentina's approach, he said that he wanted to forestall a large current-account deficit.
In a faint echo of places like Las Vegas, parlor bosses sometimes treat their favored customers to dinners, spa visits and sessions in karaoke bars.
In a faint echo of the Detroit tradition of throwing octopus on the ice to celebrate goals and championships, the fans here now throw catfish.
In a faint echo of the Laura Spence affair, John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, is determinedly fighting the corner of a state school pupil with good grades who wasn't granted a place.
In a faint voice, Danielo Morpeau, who is still learning English and speaks with a slight Haitian accent, read two of the first words he learned while living in New York: "melatonin," to aid sleep, and "Celexa," to treat depression.
"Really very happy," he said in a faint voice.
Molly gazes about her, reflecting genuine misery, and then topples over in a faint.
Now look at 'em!" and then had fallen in a faint.
Then she shyly comes in and immediately falls in a faint, for she is ill.
Under the table, in a faint rumble, his foot slapped the carpet.
