We are adjusting to a new framework, new contexts – or perhaps we have merely returned to an architecture we naively hoped had long been torn down.
In the meantime, interest rates remain at 17%, which will ruin the economy if sustained for long, and the rouble has merely returned to where it stood on Monday morning.
But Ray Stefani, Ph.D., cautions that the swimmers in Sydney, although a formidable group, have merely returned their Olympic sport to a rate of performance increase approaching that which has been seen throughout the modern Games.
Instead of shunning such unregulated funds, investors have been falling over themselves to grab a piece of the action.Whereas the size of the mutual-fund industry in terms of assets and offerings has merely returned to its level of 2000, hedge funds have doubled in size and number, according to Hedge Fund Research, a consultancy (see chart 1).
If the former, then you have merely returned what you annoyingly took away a year or two ago.
In fact, the gun homicide rate has merely returned to what it was in the early 1980s -- roughly four people out of 100,000 are murdered by guns in the United States every year.
It said it had weeded out what it referred to as "technical violations," including inmates who were listed as having escaped but merely returned late from work-release programs.
Hauptmann countered that he had merely held the money for a friend, one Isidore Fisch, who had returned to Germany in 1933 and died there.
The drivers had merely wanted to pick up some food and fuel in neighboring Ecuador and return to their homes.
Mr Martin had merely given him a final warning that he would be ordered to leave if he did not return to his seat.
