Thanks to global supply chains, rapid prototyping, cheap global labor, and fickle, distracted, greedy consumers--quality and quantity have become assured.
However, in recent years their status in the treatment of ISH has become less assured.
Instead of falling within months, as Canada's liberal punditocracy had predicted, Mr Harper has become an increasingly assured performer.
This leads to exactly the kind of behavior that has hurt retailers over the last several years, as growth has become far less assured.
Her work, always great to look at, has become sexier and more assured since then, but it still thrives on this confusion.
Selina Meyer, the egomaniacal but perennially sidelined vice president played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, has become president, but rest assured "she's still crazy Selina," Chlumsky says.
Anyone who has watched Mr. Bush for the past four months can see how confident and assured he has become in speeches and in unscripted question-and-answer sessions with reporters, how he has command of the issues at hand.
His early struggles at prime minister's questions were gleefully reported, but his performances have become more assured.
And it pleased him that late in life the one-time mollifier of other actors' egos had become so assured an on-screen performer in ads and that he had won a supporting-actor Oscar as the imposing law professor in "The Paper Chase"(1973).
In 2004, her personality underwent a change, and she was no longer shy; she had grown up and had become more assured.
Now, with the dollar down more than 40percentt against the euro and the economy hamstrung by a deep credit crunch, a less assured America has become increasingly reliant on foreign capital.
