The announcement generated so much buzz that "Debit card fees" was a trending topic on Google on Friday.
The rhythm of announcements, like so much else about the transition, was being dictated by the unusual circumstances, Bush advisers said, and in this case, too, there were no historical markers to heed.
Rarely has a wedding announcement made for so much shtick.
By Evan Osnos July 26 , 2012Rarely has a wedding announcement made for so much shtick.
Did the President's announcement a year ago accomplish so much, or did it merely reflect political and social changes already well underway?
The People's Daily, the flagship of China's state-run media empire, tried, in all honesty, to make sense of the opening ceremony at the London Olympics — an… In the magazine this week, I write about "The Burmese Spring" (available to subscribers), the startling and fragile turn toward a more open society in… Rarely has a wedding announcement made for so much shtick.
The autumn statement is likely to be no exception, with Labour shadow transport secretary Michael Dugher already noting the £15bn infrastructure programme sounds suspiciously similar to the £15bn infrastructure programme already revealed in June 2013: "This latest re-announcement represents not so much an upgrade of the nation's roads as an upgrade of the government's press releases.
Unlike all of the past leaks, this latest pre-announcement isn't so much a "leak" as it is a slip-up.
Professor Roelen added, "For me as a researcher, the announcement does not mean so much".
For better or worse, we get an announcement if someone is so much as signed to the practice squad, and I'm guessing we'd see Andy Reid mumbling his way through a press conference if a player who earned nearly 700 yards from scrimmage last season were acquired.
