Yet the political leaders in this country decided a mere three years ago that this peculiar and powerful federal oversight must be retained to protect what some have called the right from which all others flow.
PAGE B12 BOUNCES AND WHISTLES LOOM LARGE Sunday's wild finishes lent some credence to the old saw that it's often better to be lucky than good, with several games decided by mere inches or controversial calls -- and the winning teams, fighting to stay in playoff contention, grateful for the lucky breaks.
Toggling among the active suspension settings, which range from compliant Comfort to drum-tight Sport Plus, it is decided that mere Sport, right in the middle, offers the best of all worlds.
Meanwhile, in the other war he inherited, Barack Obama almost immediately launched a military-backed "surge" of U.S. forces, the only real argument being over whether 40,000 (or even as many as 80,000) new U.S. troops would be sent into Afghanistan or, as the "antiwar" president finally decided, a mere 30,000 (which made him an absolute wimp to his opponents).
Museum officials have not displayed the head, and they decided that its mere possession did not fit the spirit of the new museum.
By the end of this match eight years ago, the outcome of the Ashes had been decided in a mere 11 days while in 2006, a further four days could be added, but the outcome was just the same.
But considering that the 1996 presidential election was decided by a mere eight percentage points, what each and every consumer of comedy on television takes away from the experience can be highly significant.
Today, however, the Court seems to have decided that the mere fact that a family that cannot afford a private education wants its children educated in a parochial school is a sufficient justification for this use of public funds.
Not at all discouraged, Kubrick decided that the mere fact that a film of his was showing at a theatre at all might be used as the basis for raising money to make a second one.
