He has just inherited, along with Nancy Pelosi's gavel, a trillion-dollar fiscal deficit coupled with a weak recovery that is generating hardly any new jobs.
The abandonment of NASCAR is a tired (but ongoing) story, but it seems as if the biggest race on the NASCAR schedule -- the first Cup race of the year, the so-called "Great American Race," the race that drivers want most to win -- is generating hardly any buzz this year.
In the summer, these trees would tell another important story -- that the crape myrtles generate hardly enough shade to cover the bonnet of a compact car while one lone sycamore shelters the forestry department offices all afternoon.
The frustrations in Barnali point to a challenge at the heart of India's electrification drive: Poor villagers consume little electricity and generate hardly any revenue for utility companies, so companies see little incentive to make rural service more consistent.
He says that passions that generate vices hardly existed in the state of nature but began to develop as soon as people formed societies.
And then there is the state legislation to postpone any state-financed freight rail work, cited above, which may provide breathing room but hardly generates options.
While there's some deep nostalgia in remembering skateboarding as an outcast, "underground" culture back in the day, for better or worse, contemporary skateboarding and the hundreds of millions of dollars it generates each year hardly resemble that romantic image.
The notion that fear can generate news is hardly alien in America right now".
Yet even with all the good will in the world, Minogue's guests hardly generate enthusiasm.
But there was a been-there, done-that quality to her victories, and they hardly generated much national excitement.
