By the standards of the current mayhem in New Orleans, it was barely worth mentioning.
"Thoroughly Modern Millie," which is about being young and innocent in the jazz age, is indeed a thoroughly modern production by the creatively bankrupt standards of the current Broadway season.
Still, by the standards of the current recovery, the employment report offered plenty of good news, and this despite the bureau's annual benchmark revisions, which resulted in a slight lowering of job numbers reported last year.
Surveying the field, he calculates the present advantages of race, religion, gender, generation, genre; the lamentably low aesthetic standards of the current cultural moment; and the charlatans who act as our literary gatekeepers.
Even by the miserly standards of the current recovery, that was low.But in the same month the unemployment rate tumbled to a 21-month low of 9% from 9.4% in December.
It turns out, though, that the weirdest thing about Bob Graham, at least by the standards of the current moment, is that he recorded all of his arcana privately, without assuming that the rest of the world would be dying to read it.
However, we also believe the incremental benefits from additional outperformance are limited for [a buyout] investor, given the high operational standards of the current management," said UBS. Bucking the trend was sugar group Tate & Lyle, up 28p to 600p ahead of its annual meeting tomorrow.
The importance of leveraging manufacturing teaching and training up to the standards of the current and future needs is obvious.
The pianist Alfred Cortot commented that Poulenc's Trois mouvements perpétuels were "reflections of the ironical outlook of Satie adapted to the sensitive standards of the current intellectual circles".
But the old Pelé v Maradona argument set the standard for the current wave of often irrational subjective comparison.
