In the past she has made it known that she pays herself a salary of $50,000 a year (I forget to ask if she has had a pay rise), and unlike many of her actor friends, who seem to make up a good contingent of her circle, she is lucky to have security: a "nice house" (the day we meet, she has builders in fitting extra storage), plus the frills that come with modelling for fashion houses like Chanel.
And a pretty good contingent thought that it would never be done.
"There's a good Welsh contingent of leaders who I can rely on and there are other experienced players in the squad who can help me along the way," said the 2012 Grand Slam-winning captain.
This essay explores six conditions, the idealized model, avoidance, bewilderment, serendipity, ignorance is bliss, and indolence, that arise from low and high effort strategies when typed by good, contingent, and bad health outcomes.
I also thought about the others -- anonymous to me but certainly a good-sized contingent -- who, like me, had awakened that morning expecting a normal day, but who now, for one reason or another, were on their way to a hospital or were dead.
The paper reports on a cross-sectional multi-good contingent valuation survey conducted between April and September 2009 with three representative samples of the Irish population (N = 1214) to identify rankings and preferences for different community care programmes including: family care programme, a state-provided care programme and three different telecare programmes.
The value attributed to a good or service by contingent valuation methodology can be studied from the perspective of willingness to pay (WTP) for the enjoyment of the good, or by willingness to accept [compensation] (WTA) for its removal.
A few weeks before Sonia Sotomayor was nominated to the Supreme Court, a Princeton alumnus of the Class of 1945 complained in a letter to the Princeton Alumni Weekly: "But the feminization of Princeton seems to be pervasive, invading all activities so that Princeton now seems almost to be a women's college with a good-sized male contingent.
But this does not appear to be a good moment for the Premiership contingent to bend the rest of the continent to their will – which is as it should be, in light of the recent salary cap scandal and the cowardly way in which the facts were kept from the paying public.
The reality is that peace is a process, contingent on a good idea but also requiring a great deal of campaigning -- patiently and repeatedly targeting all relevant parties.
In a good night for Broadway's British contingent, Angela Lansbury won the award for best performance by a featured actress in a play - becoming only the second actress in history to win five Tonys.
