WHATEVER else you may think about Evo Morales, the leader of Bolivia's coca-farmers who will become his country's president on January 22nd, he cannot be accused of underestimating his own importance in the scheme of things.
We are getting so accustomed to sums of this order that it is hard to get a sense of their importance in the scheme of things.
"Its importance in the general scheme of things is greatly overstated by the West," Ali writes.
Yes, it was our finest hour but we had an understandable tendency to overstate its importance in the overall scheme of the second world war.
He praised Dr. Macfarlane's openness and said, "The dispute over the San Onofre documents is of too little importance in the greater scheme of things for the chairmanship to stand or fall because of it".
Before the 15th century, no one would have thought to create, for merely domestic consumption, a stand-alone likeness of a person whose importance in the larger scheme of things was of such small significance.
So in the scheme of importance from 100 to 0, we'll put New Jersey's hot dog war between the world-famous hot dog mecca Rutt's Hut and the upstart Mutt's Hut at a 0.5 at best.
Brett Gardner is a homegrown player whose importance in the grand scheme of things has been underscored by how much the Yankees have missed him since he went down with an oblique strain.
And one of this year's finalists, Lane Gunderman, a student at the University of Chicago Lab School, said his interest in photosynthesis developed "as my science courses explained its importance in the grand scheme of life". He knows something about life's grand schemes: just six years ago he and his family were temporarily homeless as well.
Bearing in mind, then, the enormous importance to the statutory scheme of the tariff filing provision, we turn to whether what has occurred here can be considered a mere "modification". The Commission stresses that its detariffing policy applies only to nondominant carriers, so that the rates charged to over half of allconsumers in the long distance market are on file with the Commission.
