Perhaps, he said, Merrill should have been told to send out more palatable numbers.
This devalues the book in favor of the songs – though Wolfe also wisely elides some of the less palatable numbers, like Uncle Tom, Old Black Joe and Oriental Blues – and undermines the argument for the importance of the collaboration among these four men.
Yet it was the White House's ceiling of $900 billion -- which apparently is more politically palatable than a number that begins with a 't' -- that led to Pelosi's decision.
The number of palatable species seems to be declining, especially near watering points, although by contrast some unpalatable shrub species have become more common.
E-Trade's 3.8 million customer accounts and $53 billion in customer assets make a palatable morsel for any number of financial giants with the bankroll to buy their way into the top tier of online financeCitigroup, say, JP Morgan Chase or American Express.
For every bird, the number of palatable prey consumed over the 8 days of the main experimental phase was greater than or equal to the number of toxic prey.
It has been estimated that a density threshold of approximately 0.5 rabbits ha−1 completely limits the regeneration of a large number of palatable native plant species, some of which play an essential role in ecosystem functioning (summarized by Cooke 2012).
Changes in most vegetation categories that we expected when animal numbers exceeded model optimums for short periods (decreases in coverage/stem numbers of palatable plant species, increases in bare ground or unpalatable plant species) did not occur consistently under high or low precipitation conditions.
However, several studies indicate that a number of less palatable indigenous species including totara, manuka and kanuka can successfully regenerate in the presence of grazing animals.
"It's just going to take longer to get the numbers down to palatable percentages," she said, referring to the vacancy rate.
