High street shopping, manufacturing industry, free higher education, affordable railway travel and a reliable post office may all have been sacrificed, but at least we've clung on to Bond.
Female comedies have become reliable box office performers if they're good (The Heat, Bridesmaids).
The switch to euro notes and coins three years later had a negligible effect on the general price level, according to Italy's generally reliable statistical office.
Tom Cruise and Reese Witherspoon are usually reliable box office draws, but their latest movies, "Lions for Lambs" and "Rendition," have done as well as nearly every other movie with Iraq-related themes: not well at all.
LONDON — "Don Quixote" is a ubiquitous staple of the big ballet company repertory, a reliable box office draw with its friendly Spanish setting, happy ending and firecracker divertissements that provide marvelous star turns for principal dancers.
The rates of false classification of normotension/hypertension with the wrist device were small and at least as reliable as office measurements.
Previously, the comedian had proved to be a reliable box office draw, his movies regularly passing the $100-million 100-million milestone
Movies based on Sparks' best-selling novels have proven to be reliable box office performers in recent years.
As a leading lady, Diaz has proved to be a relatively reliable box office draw in recent years.
Back in 2005, Reese Witherspoon was a top star; she was earning $15 million a picture, was a reliable box office draw in romantic comedies, and proved her mettle as a dramatic actress by winning an Oscar for "Walk the Line".
