PAGE A16 OBAMA TIPS NEWS SCALE Evening news anchors jockey for interviews with Senator Barack Obama as he heads for Iraq and other places overseas this summer, despite the low-key affair of Senator John McCain's trip to Iraq last spring.
She became Britain's longest-serving monarch last September, surpassing the record held by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, but chose to keep the milestone a low-key affair out of respect for her ancestor's memory.
It is a low-key affair, with none of the glitz of New Labour.
So while it will be holding a press conference at MWC it's more of a low key affair, scheduled for the Monday morning like last year (when it had a tablet with a bluetooth keyboard and a new mid-range handset to show off).
Critics of the ruling family, which runs Kuwait's key affairs despite the country having one of the region's most politically active parliaments, claim the rulers turn a blind eye to widespread corruption and use security forces to crush dissent.
The wedding, her third, will be a low-key affair — in front of about 30 family members and close friends — a far cry from her first union in 1947 to Luis Martínez de Irujo y Artazcoz, a nobleman, in what The New York Times called "the most expensive wedding in the world" at the time.
But this visit is expected to be a lower-key affair than that of his predecessor.
The gala's producers were ordered to make the show a more low-key affair, in the wake of the new leadership's recent crackdown on corruption and official extravagance.
The judging of the 1970 prize was a low-key affair except for the feisty behaviour of Dame Rebecca West, a judge for the second year running.
WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain's trip to Iraq last March was a low-key affair: With a small retinue of reporters chasing him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on Mr. McCain's visit there from New York, including it in the "in other political news" portion of his newscast.
There were only a smattering of mid-morning fans on the vast main court of the complex and the echoes of support for Robson gave the match the feel of a low-key affair in the provinces – although she said it made no impact on her performance.
