What I regret is not taking her original "no" at face value and creating a fantasy for myself of her coming around to dating me.
Many discreetly announced their presence on websites like Craigslist (which, for the record, asks that tickets sold through its classified ads cost no more than face value).At one well-stocked broker near the Grand Hyatt, a seat for the swimming events went for $1,500, baseball $250, and fencing $55.
This means teams usually have seats available right up to the first pitch, providing more opportunities for last-second pricing changes.As a result, just three years after the San Francisco Giants became the first MLB team to offer seats with no set face value, over half the game's clubs are using dynamic pricing.
"Statements and assurances from Greece are no longer taken at face value," said Wolfram Schrettl, professor of economics at the Free University in Berlin.
The shift to a broader focus on the issue of standing suggests that the courts may no longer accept at face value the banks' arguments that they have the right to foreclose or represent the institution that does.
That threat provides a sobering subtext to the hyperactivity, which involves Prime Ministerial photocalls, expensively produced blueprints and a blizzard of self-justification, driven by statistics which are no longer taken at face value.
"If you take the rhetoric at face value, no, he can't do what he's saying he'll do," said Cary Coglianese, who heads the University of Pennsylvania Law School's regulation program.
"If they're rioting without the videotape, what harm would it have done to release it?" Stewart, who is also representing the family of Alton Sterling, a black man shot by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, earlier this year, said statements by police in the aftermath of shootings are no longer taken at face value.
I would never take the EU saying 'there will be no change' at face value, because they said there would be no second round, and there has been.
A newly aggressive press, ready to probe and debunk, taught the public to take no institution at face value, least of all the presidency.
