Descend to a net worth of a mere $100 million–the bottom of the nine-figure club and you'll have to watch your budget.
Condoleezza Rice has moved from the White House to Foggy Bottom, a mere mile or so away.
Calling it a stew was a misnomer, however, because the "spicy tomato broth," though yummy, was a mere spoonful at the bottom of the bowl.
Desserts range from the sublime — a light-textured, bitter-chocolate charlotte; a lovely, dense chocolate cake; a delicate lemon-tarragon sherbet — to the mere mortal (an undercooked bottom crust on a tart filled with excellent lemon filling, and a damp crust on the lemon cheesecake).
From 1997 to 2000 CCBU made $82 million in net profits, letting Coke add a mere $27million to its own bottom line.
Mere imagination of profit can avoid bottom-line comparisons with other retailers.
But even the new fines remain so low that they are mere rounding errors on the bottom lines of the big energy companies that own mines.
Showing good pace off the wind, and finding the better pressure pulsing down the whitecap-flecked Hauraki Gulf, Prada began to reel back major chunks of waterborne real estate, rounding the bottom mark a mere 10 seconds behind America One.
"We must escalate our feelings and we must escalate our activism to now, in my view, affect the bottom line, because mere conversations and appeals don't seem to reap any benefits or change for the community at large.
Though it might be frustrating for them that, however much their rapping King Charles II or sing-along Henry VIII are star turns,what really gets the under-11s rolling in the aisles is the mere mention of the word "bottom".
That will do his chances of landing the job no harm but things are already looking grim for the Jags, who are stuck at the bottom with a mere three points from nine games.
