Such a setup can allow business almost as usual, yet still tick the regulators' boxes.
But eventually the old guard led it back to business almost as usual.
House members planned a cleanup day on Monday and planned to begin business almost as usual on Tuesday.
Here business continued almost as usual, cafés were open, cars were on the streets, women were out shopping.
Almost as usual, there was a red card for Pepe, the most reckless fouler in a Madrid shirt these past few years.
(No, he was almost his usual quick-witted self, though he got nervous and aggressive on the few occasions his interrogators came up with tough questions).
In London, which spent the last six months in a frenzy about how the Olympics would disrupt normal life with the influx of people and the attendant security and the transportation problems, the days go on almost as usual.
In New York City, Tom Gaynor, a postal spokesman, said mail was moving at almost the usual pace, even though some neighborhoods were having delays of a day or two in delivery when post offices were closed because of hoaxes.
An open space that only a few days ago had been the improvised site of cooperation between ballplayers and relief workers was back to accommodating business almost as usual.
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