Mr. Giuliani feels he can, and the the eye-popping statistics of his eight-year mayoralty -- crimes, including murder, fell by roughly two-thirds -- have duly impressed the city fathers.
But when pitched by the most narcissistic students (as evaluated by a 16-item questionnaire called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory), the ideas impressed the person evaluating the pitch roughly 50% more than did those from the least narcissistic pitchers.
He has taken up the Swedish sport of floorball – roughly defined as ice hockey without the ice – and recently impressed while playing for the top Swedish side which takes the same name as his current football club.
DaimlerChrysler, the maker of Mercedes, and the Ford Motor Company were so impressed by the Ballard product that they bought roughly half the company and set up joint ventures to develop a whole engine and transmission system based around the Ballard core.
But each year, I'm impressed anew by the faith behind those resolutions, which is, roughly: we can all be better people tomorrow.
Despite pushback from the White House and the roughly 50 Secret Service personnel on hand, the outdoor expert's team was impressed by how much they were able to do.
Griffey impressed his teammates by deferring $57.5 of the $116.5 million and coming to Cincinnati for roughly half of his market value.
The shift to volunteer translators came last fall, after Ms. Cohen and her colleagues — the roughly 20 full-time employees speak 14 languages among them, she says — read several volunteers' translations and were impressed.
