Since then, I've discovered the likes of watercress, endive and ruffled Treviso and have barely given spinach salad another thought.
They're the unsung heroes of Hollywood, those whose job it is to stop your heart, steal your breath and leave you gasping for more – and the chances are, you've barely given their work a second thought.
After all, for much of the last 50 years our national conversation about educational inequality has focused almost exclusively on strategies for reducing inequalities between the educational successes of the poor and the middle class, and it has relied on programs aimed at the poor, like Head Start and Title I. We've barely given a thought to what the rich were doing.
(As for his predecessor, Blinder writes, "Can you remember even a single Bush speech on the nation's developing economic crisis?") Likewise, the two Treasury secretaries during the crisis, Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner (a "terrible orator"), between them have "barely given a single coherent speech explaining what happened and — perhaps more important — why they did what they did".
"There are thousands of families who mine, sell and burn coal in order to live," added Mr. Unurkhaan, who had barely given his name before he was off to deliver to a client's home his 1.3-ton load of coal, which at $65 to $75, depending on the quality of coal, lasts a family about one month, according to official estimates.
To my parents' relief, I soon drifted apart from Linda and Sam, and I've barely given Page 3 a thought since, tending to assume campaigners seeking to ban the boob were killjoys who didn't grasp the seaside sauciness of our national character.
Over the centuries they've been bombed, invaded, besieged and passed through by millions of people who've barely given them a second thought.
The Peña Nieto government's aggressive reform laws have barely given any tangible dividends to the average Mexican consumer.
