Perhaps, with its limited resources, it should concentrate on bread-and-butter stuff.
With the cold war over and the end of history proclaimed, it was time to concentrate on bread-and-butter issues such as jobs and education.
Mary Kiffmeyer, running for her second term as Minnesota's secretary of state, is concentrating on bread-and-butter issues.
Mr Blair largely ignored this, insisting that European engagement was in Britain's best economic interests and betting that voters would reward him for concentrating on bread-and-butter concerns.
In seeking to win the vote, Salmond and his allies are concentrating on bread-and-butter issues, claiming that an independent Scotland would be more prosperous, more responsive to Scottish needs, and, ultimately, more democratic.
"The vehicles that we're talking about are kind of niche vehicles, and I think what the domestics are doing right now is concentrating on bread-and-butter cars".
The banks will concentrate more on bread-and-butter lending like mortgages and cut down their exposure to other long-dated assets; a few lucky corporate issuers will be able to pick and choose how they get their capital; everything else will have to rely more on other sources of finance.
In his speeches, Mr. Vajpayee has concentrated on the bread-and-butter issues of Indian politics, a pragmatic approach in the light of surveys that show that the vast majority of voters have little tolerance for what his party's critics have referred to as its "Muslim bashing" creed.
Vaz asked the mayor whether the phone hacking scandal had made the case for the need to "reshape the Met" and whether some of the "specialist issues... should actually go elsewhere so that the Met can concentrate on the kind of bread and butter issues you have been talking about – cutting crime and making sure we prevent crime".
After making a fortune in the board game business, he's been able to concentrate on his lifelong passion: bread.
And its backers agreed in April to split the business into two parts, hiving off a "commercial" arm which would concentrate on businesses other than bread-and-butter telephony.
