The Senate convened for the first time without a single Democrat in attendance, passing several routine items.
Stung by rising gasoline and food prices, Americans are finding creative ways to cut costs on routine items like groceries and clothing, forcing retailers, restaurants and manufacturers to decode the tastes of a suddenly thrifty public.
The auction has its share of more routine items, from signed boxing gloves and photographs to boxing programs and fight posters (one for his first post-exile fight in 1970, against Jerry Quarry, misspelled his name "Muhamad").
If thousands upon thousands are allowed to die each year virtually unmarked and unmourned – small, routine items at the foot of page two – then the tide of opinion will never turn.
His successor, Anthony Beale, whom Mr. Daley tapped for the post in April, said he was working with the police and fire departments so that "routine items" like equipment donations could be handled outside the committee, leaving it more time for oversight.
That is the signature of modern terrorism: to turn routine items from our lives into bombs: the shoe, the backpack, the car, the airplane, the cellphone, the laptop, the garage door opener, fertilizer, the printer, the pressure cooker — so that everything and everyone becomes a source of suspicion.
The idea of taking out a high-interest loan to buy routine items such as socks sounds silly, but credit-card holders who don't pay their bill in full each month do exactly that when buying household items or restaurant meals.
The raw figure of £84,000 spent on the investigation over two and a half years doesn't sound very much, although Mr Gregory pointed out this covers only specific spending on the case by Norfolk Constabulary - not routine items such as staff wages, nor what might have been disbursed by specialist national agencies who are not in the habit of divulging information about their activities.
To raise awareness of its Emergency Social Safety Net project, the European Union and the United Nations World Food Programm commissioned artists to draw the routine items that are helping to restore a sense of normality to youngsters who have been forced to flee their homes.
New reliable risk factors of recurrence other than routine items in histopathological examination are expected.
