The political media exposé, of the sort that invariably earns the suffix "-gate" in the United States, can come in a surprising variety of shapes and sizes.
New and surprising sorts of co-operation are springing up: with NGOs, with competitors, with other companies.
As G.M. prepares a public stock offering this year, China is emerging as a crucial piece of its appeal to potential investors -- and a surprising downpayment of sorts for U.S. taxpayers, who would begin shrinking their estimated 61 percent equity stake in the company, which is based in Detroit.
As G.M. prepares a public stock offering later this year, China is emerging as a crucial piece of its appeal to potential investors — and a surprising down payment of sorts for American taxpayers, who would begin shrinking their 61 percent equity stake in the company.
She had a surprising knack for creating the sort of original shoes that would appeal to the sort of women Mellon calls "the opinion leaders".
Mr. KELLY: You know, I think it's likely that we're going to have a constitutional convention in 2011 and to be the chief lawyer for the people in that convention would be very, very exciting and sort of a surprising you know, practical way to apply my time working in early American political thought and political theory and constitutional theory.
It presented itself with a great way for us to launch our character and almost immediately connect to who our protagonist was and also to do it in sort of a surprising way as far as having this against-type performance from Carrell and launching us into this trajectory form.
In the last year of her life, Mandelman took a surprising turn toward a simplified, emblematic sort of picture.
But the data also showed something surprising: a sort of long-term memory of rhythmic imperfections over the course of a song.
A surprising choice, perhaps.
