Nowadays, there is only one communal screen experience for travellers, and that's the map showing where you are.
Nowadays they have only one plaque between them, which you can see if you stretch your neck and peer above Foxton's estate agents in Curtain Road, Shoreditch.
Nowadays there is only one species of Epacris in general cultivation here in the UK; they are considered tricky, tender and difficult to germinate.
Nowadays, there is only one municipal union leader who could be compared with the 1970's threesome: Randi Weingarten, chairwoman of the Municipal Labor Committee and president of the teachers' union.
Nowadays, only Brood II (the one that comes out this year) and Brood X attract much notice; most of the other fifteen broods come out to chirp during their appointed years as well, but there aren't many insects left in any of them.
(There are also thirteen-year locusts, but they come out in smaller numbers, and don't inspire headline writers to proclaim "SWAMAGEDDON!" and "CICADAPOCALYPSE!") Nowadays, only Brood II (the one that comes out this year) and Brood X attract much notice; most of the other fifteen broods come out to chirp during their appointed years as well, but there aren't many insects left in any of them.
Nowadays, the Navy contracts for only one sub each year, at a cost of more than $2 billion, with the work split between Electric Boat and Northrop Grumman's Newport News, Va., facility.
Hence there is nowadays only a single colonizing haplotype left on the island, either because only one was associated with the colonizing mice, or other variants got lost by drift.
This sounds very au courant nowadays, but, back then, it excited only one of us, a math and cryptography enthusiast who went out and bought a copy, hoping to get it signed.
