Barry Banks, as Arturo, began with a slightly constricted sound, and his range of color was never vast.
And Shanghai Automotive's joint venture with Volkswagen, also in Shanghai, began offering a slightly smaller Passat model this year.
One witness, a clerk at Long Island University who was putting quarters into a washing machine when the robbery began, gave a slightly different account.
But last month the same Brisbane retailer began offering a slightly modified version, one that fires five 12-gauge cartridges rather than seven.
It began with a slightly misleading posting on JDate, in which Ms. Oliner's data included that she was living in San Francisco when, in fact, she was living in Brooklyn and was finishing law school.
But it was really a woman (Ms. Tejeda de Cerda) who danced a ruminative solo, after which Mr. Keefe joined her in a duet that began in a slightly sultry fashion, broadened into high lifts and ended with a tender embrace.
The concert began with a slightly ragged rendering of Mozart's Divertimento in B flat (K. 137) and a more polished account of Mendelssohn's String Symphony No. 10 in B minor, both youthful works that scarcely bear the spark that illuminated those composers' mature works.
In the U.S., Toyota recently began selling a slightly modified Platz and in typical Japanese fashion gave it yet another name, the Echo.
And on the same field where the London Olympics began with a slightly underwhelming women's football fixture on 25 July last year, the Rugby League World Cup started with a bang.
The mounting discord, which began with a slightly smaller number dissenting in a previous bailout-related vote last month, is threatening to split his party and could lead to early elections.
