Prospects for a decent pension may be grim for all, due to financial and demographic crises, but they are far grimmer for women, who not only earn less, but retire five years earlier then men (60 and 65 respectively).
Humor, or a decent facsimile, may be made in an editing room -- serviceable visual punch lines can be created when unlikely images are juxtaposed -- but tragedy, the stuff of long takes and cultivated symbolism, can be invited only by a documentary series.
The institutions of a decent society may be organized around a single comprehensive doctrine, such as a dominant religion.
With a decent price and very decent design, it may be the most consumer-friendly projector out there.
That is a decent start, but may be too indiscriminate.
His decent, honest opportunism may be old-fashioned, but it was again a match-saving quality Sunday.
"There is a pretty broad view that President Obama is a good family man and decent guy, but may be in over his head," said Mr. Gillespie, a former counselor to George W. Bush, who was brought into the Romney campaign this month.
And if you think of Web-only programming as "unknowns with decent cameras," you may be surprised: that's Lisa Kudrow of "Friends" dispensing the dubious advice on "Web Therapy," and the "Childrens Hospitall" staff includes Rob Corddry ("The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and Megan Mullallyly ("Will & Grace").
SkyScout is surprisingly clever and way more convenient, but for the long run a decent computerized telescope may be a better way to boldly go.
While early signs point to Technical Boy remaining as caricaturesque as ever, with smartphones and social media bolstering the book's technophobia (according to Gaiman, our gadgets are ruining us and couldn't possibly be bringing us closer to each other, or giving access to information that can make us wiser and more decent), that caricature may be able to indict something more insidious.
