This would pretty much stop submissions," — referring to pre-selected presentations made by attendees at the conference each year.
At the beginning of the Bush years, I was pretty much an outsider, referred to as being on the "far left".
One committee member said that the reference to "content-based" labeling referred pretty much to what the F.D.A. is already doing -- requiring labeling only if the content of the food is changed significantly, not merely because genetic engineering was used.
For those unfamiliar with the word 'breweriana,' it refers to pretty much everything containing a brewery or brand name beer on it.
"Everything else, it's pretty much the same," he added, referring to the computers that sat atop gray rectangular tables and the stacks of books on shelves labeled "inventory".
I've learned much in my journey to get to this point of being ready to retire, including the fact that I pretty much hate it when people refer to their lives as journeys.
"All of our stores pretty much adhere to M.S.R.P.," she said, referring to the manufacturer's suggested retail price.
"Brentwood used to be pretty much Kings and Bloods," he said, referring to the black street gang.
When Kelly says that New York is having to defend itself "pretty much on our dime," he is referring, primarily, to the budgeting formula under which homeland-security funds are disbursed.
"They are able to pretty much call the shots," Potter said, referring to the drug industry along with its allies in the insurance industry.
