It was a nice day, apart from the swollen joints, salty sweat-lined pudgy faces and damp T-shirts, and we were nearly home free.
Indeed, with a nice irony, apart from the post office, the best retail bank in Japan is Citigroup.International investors have waited for many years for the Japanese equivalent of buying Citicorp shares at $8 each.
IN the 1880s, when the chief achievable career goal for nice girls, apart from marriage and motherhood, was teaching school, a young woman named Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote an essay in praise of ambition.
He was at the height of his 'bish, bash, bosh' phase and kept saying things like: 'I love it when the kitchen is pomp-pomp-pomp-pomp-POMP-ING!' Six years on, though, he is much improved: softer round the edges, more thoughtful, less arrogant, nice manners apart from all the swearing - and also (and perhaps this is the real reason I warm to him) mildly anxious, possibly even a little depressed.
In MOONLIGHT MILE (Morrow/ HarperCollins $26.99), he brings back Patrick Kenzie, the private detective from Dorchester, Mass., whose anti-establishment attitude and "class rage" fueled the violence of his earliest novels, to paint a bleak picture of nice towns coming apart at the seams.
Foreign assistance isn't an afterthought - something nice to do apart from our national defence.
It's a nice Web app, apart from its annoying general sluggishness, and new features get added consistently so it has me sticking around for now.
Two nice young ladies moved apart and offered me a chair between them.
I have no attachments, apart the nice ones, for the first time in my life - and it's great.' I have to intercede here, telling her I'm under orders to ask about Jamie Theakston.
Our plans were for kids spaced a nice, even two years apart; what we got was a gap of three years (due to pregnancy outcomes largely beyond our control), followed by three kids who are within 20 months of one another (one adopted).
