That the Obama administration, for instance, has pointed to rebounding G.D.P. numbers rather than our unusually high unemployment numbers reflects a political calculation rather than a case of economists beating a drum for the glory of G.D.P.
Although it probably has more to do with the mood of corporate cost cutting that has infected the major studios in the last year rather than the unusually large number of Oscar-contending films, this year the screeners have all come in plain cardboard boxes.
The impressive size of the D. salina plastid genome (and those from other chlamydomonadalean algae) is a reflection of a prodigious noncoding DNA content rather than an unusually large gene repertoire.
There are influential people in a small-world network, but this tends to come from connections to an unusually diverse set of people, rather than having an unusually large number of connections.
The books are passionate rather than playful, and, unusually, the last of the quartet The Story of the Lost Child, which has just been longlisted for the Man Booker International prize, is the best.
It started to dawn on Obama's team that, as nice as a hands-off approach might sound in theory, a stimulus bill owned by a notoriously unpopular Congress rather than by an unusually popular president might not actually garner enough votes to pass.
The castle itself was occupied by a unit of the Royal Armoured Corps, who served as observers; the soldiers appear to have relied on the stone walls for protection rather than trenches, and, unusually, no additional firing points were cut out of the stonework, as typically happened elsewhere.
Unusually, rather than beginning with the first verse, the song begins with an iteration of the chorus: Hey!
This scenario is consistent with the genetic data, which show similar levels of genetic diversity across the island rather than isolated pockets of unusually high diversity that might be interpreted as refugia.
Patient safety initiatives still tend to focus mainly on the negative cases, and finding the problems, root causes, or the culprits responsible for adverse events (negative deviance), rather than attempting to identify unusually effective practice.
