Though the story of Dr. Praeger's company — born of two rabbinical prognostications, any number of hairpin turns of fate and the transformative realization that man cannot live by gefilte fish alone — reads like something out of Sholem Aleichem, it began, no less, on a Christmas Eve.
Maybe we could blow this off as one dumb line, if there wasn't another joke mocking campus rape in the first "Pitch Perfect" trailer, at the very beginning no less.
And if that in turn is successful, BP can begin the no less daunting task of rehabilitating the company in the eyes of America, and of its investors.
John Bryant's classic 1969 work, Health and the Developing World, [ 1] begins with a dictum no less true today.
Federal rules require the gate arms to begin to move downward no less than three seconds after the flashing lights begin and to be horizontal at least five seconds before the arrival of the train.
He began recruiting talent, and with no less effort or fervor than his colleagues in the athletic department.
"Let us hope that we are beginning a new Elizabethan age no less renowned than the first," said Clement Attlee.
China, no less smartly, began in 2003 to emerge from its diplomatic shell by organising six-nation talks to deal with the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula.
The result is a needlessly greater risk that the project will go wrong.To begin with mundane matters (but no less important for that), far more preparation is needed by banks, companies and, hardest of all, public administrations.
So they nominated John Kerry for the presidency, hoping that having a real combat veteran as their standard-bearer — a bemedaled war hero, no less, who began his convention speech by announcing that he was "reporting for duty" — would finally expose Bush as the tinhorn chicken hawk that liberals believed him to be.
