Or maybe Steinbrenner displayed little glee (save for the prospect of shorter lines at bathrooms, which he pitched as a perk especially for women, and at concession stands) because this deal with Giuliani is in limbo unless the new mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, approves it.
This is shaping up to be one of the tighter editions of a brutal Conmebol qualifying tournament and any team that can string a few wins together – as a hugely impressive Ecuador have managed to do by taking 12 points from 12 – will save themselves the prospect of a hair-raising final few matches.
And traders keep buzzing that Bear Stearns, which was saved from the prospect of a bankruptcy filing through a takeover backed by the Federal Reserve, may not be the last Wall Street bank to run into trouble.
(Anyone who e-mails Ferriss these days immediately receives in her inbox an automated response, with the cheery sign-off "Here's to life outside of the inbox!") The book counsels readers to take what Ferriss calls "mini-retirements" now — a month in Costa Rica, three months in Berlin — rather than saving up the prospect of leisure for the final decades of life.
In the final 25 overs, though, they managed to take the wickets of Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott, saving themselves the prospect of a brace of boot-filling batathons, and gaining some satisfaction beyond that of simply knowing that in carrying their first innings on for almost 154 overs, they have made it extremely difficult for England to fight their way into a winning position.
While veterinarians usually wait for several high tides to see if the whale can save itself, the prospects are usually grim.
Rather than save more, many may save even less when the prospect of benefiting is a yawning 45 years hence.
But Kohlberg understood that no amount of philosophising would save the world from that prospect, so he set out to find empirical evidence to support his belief that humankind, through a gradual process of cultural advance, might outgrow its all too frequent tendency to indulge in heinous acts against members of its own species.
"And the Palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed, save that the prospects of a durable peace have only receded".
Few seemed soothed by the prospect of saving a few cents per gallon over the summer.
