Our automobile companies have been going through a precarious debacle for many years as the businessmen who led them fiercely resisted making needed changes in the types of cars they made for a consumer population that has become increasingly more apt to buy fuel-efficient and "cleaner" cars made in Japan, South Korea and other countries.
If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" The red queen's race seems an increasingly apt metaphor for environmental scarcity.
But as the evening wore on, Mr. Doyle's take seemed increasingly apt; unlike the distracting busywork of Mary Zimmerman's dismal Met "Lucia," this staging fixed attention where it belonged, on intimate character entanglements.
Obama, like Clinton (a comparison that seems increasingly apt), will also very likely benefit from a Republican Party that is too extreme for many Americans.
The term has seemed increasingly apt as the military cracks down on its opponents, and as it has become increasingly clear that the interim president, Judge Adly Mansour, is a cipher holding no real power.
As the 300th anniversary of his birth approaches (now a mere three and a half years away), Franklin is apt to become an increasingly attention-getting figure, although his life, inventions and extraordinary feats of government building and international diplomacy have not exactly languished in obscurity.
But an author with a fondness for words like rutilant, cunctatory and exundant, and with a tendency to sound more like a perfunctory chronicler than a muckophile, is apt to lack the bare-knuckles brutality that the genre increasingly demands.
Whizzes at exams, young and increasingly likely to have been born in Britain, the latest generation is more apt to become doctors and lawyers than restaurateurs.
But as the recession bites, and the greed of the top few clubs grows by the day, fear increasingly stalks the boardrooms - and decisions made in times of fear are apt to be disastrous.
The monetary costs are apt to be unmanageable if this becomes the "go to" solution for an increasingly prevalent problem.
