If you were to argue that, in a blind tasting, most of us wouldn't be able to tell the difference between British and Peruvian asparagus, you would, in all likelihood, be met with a volley of argument concerning air miles and freight and footprints.
Unfolding after the economic collapse, Auster's novel concerns Miles Heller, a college dropout "trashing out" foreclosed houses in Florida.
But Breyer said that might be an issue for another day, because the complaint in Ginsberg's case concerned only miles earned by flying.
Though it never would have occurred to me or to my employer that anything we did that week could concern lawmakers miles away, it also seemed ordinary enough when, for my next job, wrapping Christmas gifts in a dress shop, my mother had to get me a Social Security card.
As usual, the tachometer is the largest gauge, placed at the center in Le Mans fashion racecar drivers aren't concerned with miles per hour but shifting at redline is critical.
The city's Department of Transportation has made what seems like a small request concerning this forsaken three-mile-long waterway separating Queens from Brooklyn.
Therefore, California concludes, all that is prayed for is an abstract declaration of rights concerning an unidentified three-mile belt, which could only be used as a basis for subsequent actions in which specific relief could be granted as to particular localities.
Regarding the article concerning Marine Corps reservists' 10-mile training hike through Irvine and Newport Beach (June 27), the story was so embellished with terrifying adverbs and adjectives that it appeared the march route was populated with people whose mental capacity to comprehend is open to question.
He is also concerned about food miles.
It's all well and good being concerned about food miles, recycling, showering instead of having a bath, etc etc, but while we do all that with one hand, the other hand is busily snapping up cheap clothes and jumping in our Chelsea tractors to make the journey to the supermarket.
