"This maintains hopes that decent consumer spending can underpin significantly improved GDP [gross domestic product] growth in the second quarter".
Tired or not, Jones blends easily into the offense; he is a passing guard, not a scoring threat, and plays decent defense, spending most of his time jockeying in the low post against opponents several inches taller than he is.
"It could be different: with decent government spending on public services, progressive taxation, regulation to control capital and regional trading relationships to wean countries off dependency on western markets".
Howard Archer, economist at the consultancy IHS Global Insight, said improved eurozone GDP growth in the first quarter of 2016 was likely underpinned by decent consumer spending while the evidence from France and Austria indicated that business investment was healthy.
This crowd is the same people who have been making off with the lions' share of the economy's productivity gains for the past three decades instead of allowing ordinary people their traditional share; the same crowd that opposes a more progressive distribution of taxes and decent social spending.
The question lies at the core of some 20 active lawsuits against states across the country, all contending that legislatures essentially cheat students out of their right to a decent education by spending too little on schools.
However, the ease of play, the length of the challenge (a good week plus of tough puzzling) and the intense "eureka" moments as your final fish finds salvation still make this a very decent way of spending eight quid.
Martin estimated he was in decent shape after spending a lot of time on a treadmill, but did not exaggerate his fitness after nine months away from the N.B.A. "I was just telling them," he said, referencing his new teammates, "the treadmill's a lot shorter than this court".
That being said, most directors manage to make decent films without spending days at a time on every set-up.
But the conceptual design report issued today shows that all that consulting hasn't been idle: there's a relatively cohesive and practical plan — as practical as a particle collider can be — and a decent case for spending the $21 billion or so that would be needed.
