Though the disparity has started to narrow somewhat over the last week, with Republicans gaining a decisive advantage in places like Cleveland and Des Moines, the story in battleground states has been the same for much of the last month: even at their most effective, the super PACs have helped Mr. Romney fight only to a draw.
Since becoming a somewhat public figure, she says, she has started to receive the mortician's equivalent of fan-mail.
Mr. James, a somewhat pragmatic Mormon who lives in Utah, far from Silicon Valley, has started a company called Domo.
"Medical care costs have started to accelerate somewhat," Mr. Jackman noted.
However, by 2000 local cocoon production had started to decline somewhat because of rising labour costs and lower prices for raw silk.
The exuberance of Mr. Cantet's young cast brought to a rousing finish a festival that had started on a somewhat downbeat note, particularly for Americans concerned about the uncertain box office for foreign-language films and an ever-weakening dollar.
Since then, things have started to improve somewhat, but it has incentivized Tencent to reduce its exposure in gaming and look for other non-content business segments that generate steady revenue and require less government regulation.
The myth may have started with a somewhat sensible hunch, but just doesn't turn out to be true.
The album Magic and Loss, from which the track comes, suffered from being somewhat convoluted, having started out as a concept album about "magic" to which was added "loss" when two of the singer's friends died.
He had started his day in a somewhat happier mood, smiling for the cameras at East 45th Street and First Avenue, where he and two of his children dedicated a plaque at the site of a future Uganda mission.
