An engrossing social history and group biography of four New York women, brought up amid Victorian propriety, whose lives became intertwined as they pioneered new roles for their sex..
In another paradox, Peru has created "a culture of fiscal propriety" whose side-effect is that officials are ignoring a social emergency in the Andes, says Mr Webb.Tackling this effectively means reforming the education and health ministries as well as local government.
According to Anderson, Hubert Humphrey, a Pearson favorite, may have had "a firmer grasp on journalistic propriety than Drew," whose methods sometimes left Anderson feeling queasy.
Moreover, it is difficult to establish the "optimality" of heuristic methods: they may be designed to maximize a score function that makes some intuitive sense but whose propriety for the system studied is difficult to ascertain, since the system is not understood.
"It is unconstitutional," said Shawn Dow, founder of Arizona Citizens Against Photo Radar, who also questioned the safety benefit and the propriety of having Redflex, whose parent company is based in Australia, involved in issuing tickets to Americans.
He was also a man whose sense of propriety was sometimes indistinguishable from squeamishness.
In an interview with Business Week in May 2000, Mr. Grubman scoffed at anyone who questioned the propriety of having an analyst, whose job is to provide investors with objective investment advice, work closely with the firm's investment bankers.
And Mr. Grubman, at the top of his game, was scoffing at anyone who questioned the propriety of having an analyst, whose job is to provide investors with objective investment advice, work closely with the firm's investment bankers.
Others said its angels were the Mob, whose odd sense of propriety kept an outré exercise in sadistic violence away from public consumption.
It tells the story of Jim and Irene Westcott, an Upper East Side husband and wife whose careful sense of propriety gets rattled when Jim buys an expensive new radio that allows them to overhear the conversations of their neighbors.
He's followed by the writer Nigella Lawson, whose British accent and mock propriety are counterprogramming to Mr. Bourdain's American slovenliness.
