"The Stain" continues largely in the same vein.
"Adult education continued largely in response to articulate demands from members of the public who already knew they wanted to learn," says Tuckett. "And formidable champions like Richard Hoggart emerged in the 1950s with his hugely influential book The Uses of Literacy".
The prime factor behind the huge losses was not the meteorology, but this: Authorities in New York and New Jersey simply allowed heavy development of at-risk coastal areas to continue largely unabated in recent decades, even as the potential for a massive storm surge in the region became increasingly clear.
By contrast, the novel's aristocratic heroine, Sophia, continues largely as before, in a whirl of pink champagne and nightclubs, even though she is obliged to spend the days volunteering at a first aid post (as Nancy herself did).
The war in Gaza continues, largely because the Bush administration has continued to oppose, in practice, an immediate ceasefire.
Meanwhile its gross depredations in its self-declared caliphate in northern Syria and Iraq continued largely unchecked despite intensified bombing by a US-led multinational coalition, reinforced in December by Britain.
But tensions have never threatened to split the cartel, whose trade in marijuana, cocaine and heroin continued largely as usual while El Chapo was in jail, said Ismael Bojórquez, director of the Sinaloa-based investigative weekly Río Doce.
The conflict in BiH continued largely unabated for more than 42 months.
Attacks against the Rohingya have continued largely unimpeded, as civilians engage in violence with assistance or acceptance from law enforcement.
The compensatory premium for breeding in the LFAs continued largely unaffected, while some agri-environmental measures (these including extensification and organic farming) were applied sporadically.
