Michael, well into his seventies and one of the last true barmen in LA, is indeed quick with a joke or to light up your smoke but is also good for a few measures of Cole Porter and, on rare occasions, will demonstrate the underrated dancing prowess of Jackie Gleason.
But in among all these important negative findings, on a few measures of "cognitive functioning" – an attention task, a verbal memory test – Seroquel did better.
He played the first few measures of a Beethoven piano sonata on an early-model Kurzweil synthesizer, stumbled, started over, stumbled again, then switched to Gershwin.
But what, exactly?Mr Cameron announced a few measures in Parliament on September 1st.
Many Big I innovations, such as the Nintendo Wii, home defibrillators, and Salesforce.com's CRM software as a service, have prevailed by outperforming the incumbents on a few measures while being merely adequate on others.
The balances in the orchestra were terrible, while the body mikes were often not switched on until a few measures after the singers' entrances.
Longitudinal results were similar in direction but differences on few measures were significant.
The ABC News/Washington Post survey showed Mr. Obama also gaining ground on a few measures among the larger sample of registered voters, including on handling taxes and Medicare, and being seen as the stronger leader.
The Tai Chi group did better than the stretching group on a few measures: leaning without losing balance, having better directional control of their body, and walking skills.
