The day after Mr Schröder's categorical Nein to tax hikes, Wolfgang Clement, the powerful premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous of Germany's 16 Länder (states), announced that he was ready to introduce a bill in the Bundesrat, the parliamentary chamber where the states are represented, to bring in a new wealth tax.
The detail and understatement with which such horrifying loss is represented combine to bring a lump to the throat.
They both scored surprise wins and represented attempts to bring about radical change and lift their respective "peoples" up out of depression.
And Ms. Escobar and another laid-off janitor, Elba Polanco, were brought to New York City last week by the Service Employees International Union, which represents them, to bring their plight to the attention of Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase.
Also on Tuesday, Haitian officials allowed Louis Gary Lissade, a former justice minister in Haiti who is also representing Mr. Allen, to bring a satellite phone into the jail so Mr. Allen could call his wife, Lisa, who was in Dallas, and assure her that he was all right.
In addition to pulling in big-name Latino talent to work on the programming, Mr. Rodriguez said the network represented an opportunity to bring in Hispanics who have struggled in Hollywood.
For Ms. Lambert, who is gay, it represented an opportunity to bring all her worlds together: "The very pragmatic part of the song was there, but I wanted to provide a context of love and heart — that's sort of my thing".
"This is a disappointing outcome as there is no doubt in my mind that the merger represented an opportunity to bring together two strong and successful companies into a group that would be greater than the sum of its parts," King said.
In other cases transformations to more concise forms may be needed to bring the represented ideas stylistically closer to surface form.
Google's lobbying, as well as its work on a phone software platform that would be open to other applications, represent an effort to bring to the mobile Internet the dynamics of the PC-oriented Internet, which is free of control by network operators.
Firefox represents a way to bring balance back to the sector".
