Although steep cuts in the city's education budget have not yet affected him directly, he said, they are "sobering, to say the least".
His immediate predecessor, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., although steeped in China policy and, unlike Mr. Locke, able to converse in Mandarin, never generated such hoopla.
Although steeped in church history and riddled with obscure terminology like "Ebionitic" (a reference to Jewish followers of Jesus who, in sympathy with the Sermon on the Mount, chose lives of poverty), the book quickly became a best seller.
Set-up charges for the installation typically start at $200 for two computers, although steep discounts may be offered, and there is an additional monthly charge of $5 for networking equipment if it is leased rather than bought.
The Z51 performance package, although steep, contains a host of goodies: different gear ratios; a transmission cooler; 19-inch front and 20-inch rear wheels; bigger brakes with slotted rotors; and an electronic limited-slip rear differential and differential cooler.
Although steeped in a Marxism that can be seen as a product of Enlightenment thinking, Putin sees himself as a Slavophile living by passion, faith and intuition and unwilling to submit to Western views of reason and fairness.
There is no deadline for repayment, although a steeper 9 percent dividend payment kicks in after five years.
China, which has struggled in recent months with rising inflation, has actually benefited from slower exports — although a steeper decline could prove a problem.
The empirical distributions are consistent with a powerlaw, although somewhat steeper than predicted (Heggie 1975; Monaghan 1976; Valtonen and Karttunen 2006).
