Miliband's rise from a low tabloid-engineered base to slightly prime ministerial served to remind the political class that the former Tory chairman Chris Patten had been right to warn that his party should fear him more than Ukip's Farage.
The calculations are based on the cost of two seven-strong staff teams that are representative of start-up businesses, one based in a "prime financial sector location" and the other in a slightly less prime or creative area, in order to give a representative figure.
An escaped convict shot and slightly wounded Prime Minister Turgut Ozal today as he addressed a convention of Turkey's governing party, the police said.
And because of this, the weather and more controversial behavior by the snowboarders, the sport got only slightly more prime-time coverage than curling.
The pan-seared sea scallops, an entree, were a perfect balance of caramelized sweetness and fresh, surprisingly earthy bites of the sea; but the steamed mussels in Frangelico shallot broth, another appetizer, were tough and, worse, tasted slightly past prime.
Over the last 72 hours, the tensions have begun to ease slightly, with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and other Indian leaders shifting from threats of war toward more modulated statements stressing their preference for a peaceful outcome.
It was a slightly perkier prime minister than of late that entered the PMQs bear pit for yet another duffing up over Brexit.
With just a few chords of classic rock, my senses are primed, eyes dilated, hair slightly raised.
In contrast, among respondents primed to feel angry, the impact of sexism was slightly larger than those primed to feel relaxed.
