Exports have been slowing for months, and in July they edged up a mere 1 percent, official statistics this month showed.
Today, 100 pesos buys a mere $11 at the official exchange rate.
The electoral commission unhelpfully kept up the suspense to the last moment, as its chairman delivered a rambling speech before at last confirming that the Muslim Brotherhood's first count deviated by a mere 0.017% from the official one.All this suspense, followed by relief, briefly overshadowed the real difficulties Mr Morsi is likely to face.
Very few people outside China have heard of the town of Wenchang on China's tropical island of Hainan, but in a mere four years, Chinese officials say, it will become "China's Kennedy Space Centre".
"But this is a decision that is going to be 90percentt political and only 10percentt financial," he added, "made by a mere handful of top officials, so anyone who claims to know how this soap opera is going to turn out is only guessing".
Even in the face of the federal government's new report, infamous climate denier Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) laughed off the summit as a mere ruse for foreign officials to pop Champagne at their taxpayers' expense.
At first, McFaul took the attack personally, not yet realizing that he was, for Putin and official Moscow, a mere foil.
The UK sent a middle-ranking trade official as a mere observer to the signing of the Treaty of Rome that year.
They said that their daughter was not getting enough bookings, that she hated the idea of a Miss America slot machine and that she was being treated by Miss America officials as a mere employee.
Flooding rains were anticipated in the Carolinas, though, in contrast, Dottie was compared to a mere thunderstorm by some local officials.
