It went to the heart of the nagging worry about the silver-tongued young senator from Illinois: that he lacked even the slightest executive experience, and that in his brief career he had never really stood up to powerful interests, whether in his home city of Chicago or in the wider world.
While the drop-off in patient admissions may still seem relatively slight, hospital executives and consultants say it is already having a profound impact on many hospitals' profitability.
Petersen does believe opponents Gary Johnson and John McAfee have a slight advantage in executive experience, having both run large businesses and in Johnson's case, the New Mexico State Government for two four-year terms.
There was slight improvement in executive function (clock drawing tests) and in behavior (Moretti et al 2003), however the results of a randomized double-blind trial with rivastigmine are awaited.
Although our patient did not show gross cognitive deficits indicated by standard neuropsychological testing, more in-depth tests (such as the three-item CDT and NAI) revealed slight impairment in executive cognition suggestive of mild cognitive impairment, which is commonly seen in, but not specific for, dysexecutive syndrome [ 9].
Although the patient scored within the normal range on both mini-mental state examination (MMSE, 28 points) and DemTect (16 points), the three-item clock-drawing test (CDT, 3 points) and Nuremberg Age Inventory (NAI) revealed a slight impairment in executive cognition.
But at the awards, the designer, who is married to Virginia Smith, Vogue's accessories director, was seated with Anna Wintour, a perceived slight to Perry Ellis executives, who had bought a large table of their own.
The slightest evidence of executive branch disobedience of a valid judicial order should be met with immediate and sustained public protest, combined with those classic tools of political pressure that actually do work, like annoying one's elected officials over the telephone.
Finally, some of the arguments for jury nullification sound like arguments for executive clemency in slight disguise.
Told eight years would probably be considered a slight difference to his chief executive members, he smiled.
