The council, not to mention a large chunk of the management board, contains plenty of men who still pine for the gin-and-tonic certainties of the amateur era and have never even glimpsed the inside of a professional dressing room.
It is particularly surprising that this wariness extended to a show from someone like Ullman, with her proven track-record in the biggest TV market in the world, not to mention a large chunk of residual affection for her in the UK.
Even the energy of its iconic star, Kiefer Sutherland, began to flag — how many times, after all, can one human being save the world in a 24-hour period that usually involved losing yet another person he loved, not to mention a large chunk of his soul?
And why might the most cashed-up big-business lobby in the world, with a daily budget nearing $400,000, be interested in these kinds of tactics, when they can just buy much of the media, not to mention a good chunk of Congress?
And if the plan now is to repeal the ACA fully in the hopes of forcing the Democrats to compromise, essentially playing chicken with the healthcare of millions of people (not to mention a huge chunk of the economy), that's less of a failure and more of a monstrosity.
Of course, such an enormous (not to mention opaque) chunk of rock isn't much use for gathering light.
All have given me an irreplaceable sense of comfort since I first moved here: even youthful rebellion loses force in the face of a chunk of Parmigiano-Reggiano and a heel of bread -- not to mention a good cannoli.
If you've taken a chunk of time off, explain the gap in your cover letter and mention it in your résumé.
Spectrum is a rarely mentioned necessity for all wireless communications, although occasionally it makes the headlines, as in 2000 when a chunk of cellular spectrum was sold in the UK for £22bn.
