One more fillip regarding Adam Gopnik's discussion baseball's statistical continuity and Ben McGrath's response, a debate that reminds me of my own primal experience with the sport's historical crises.
(One added fillip is that, with the rise of the concert hall and the relative democratization of musical culture, this element of connoisseurship fell away and music's abstract relations came to the fore).
WINE LIST: A smart, well-chosen international list of about 200 wines, with three Champagnes by the glass and 10 wines served in two sizes of "fillip," either one-quarter or two-thirds of a bottle.
Yes, REIT's, especially highly leveraged ones, will not have the fillip of refinancing to drive up yields now that interest rates are rising.
The absence of Ferguson was a fillip for Hearts and one that they exploited to telling effect.
The prosecution's final witness, Dr. Joseph Cohen, who performed the autopsy, added the chilling fillip that at least one of the shots, and perhaps three of them, had hit Diallo when he was already down.
Ireland gave their Six Nations title hopes a huge fillip with a surprisingly one-sided victory over a poor Wales in Dublin.
One in the eye for Brussels, and a fillip for the Tories and Ukip.
At least Cairns, who must at the moment wonder why he hurried back from his one-day stint with New Zealand, gave Notts a fillip with a performance of twinke-toed ruthlessness, striking seven powerful fours in his 39.
The purses sport oversize apple-green fillips on a bubble-gum background.
And rebuilding after the floods and tornadoes may deliver a fillip in the second half of the year.Yet if one-offs can so easily depress growth, that only underlines how fragile the economy's underpinnings are.
