His overall substantive record is nevertheless poor.
While there may be some dispute as to how much credit Mr. Villaraigosa deserves for all that — crime is going down across the country — it is a more substantive record than he would have been able to boast about a few years ago.
Those who feel Costello is still overlooked (in Britain at any rate; the Americans are still busy putting him up for Emmys and Oscars and halls of greatness) will welcome this book as a substantive record of the man's energy and brilliance after nearly 30 years of standing up when we might have expected him to be falling down.
Some months later, on December 17, a substantive record spoke of scientific consensus on the point that "dispersal to the ocean cannot be the ultimate answer to radioactive waste disposal," on the grounds that, assuming dumping over five decades, "a highly radioactive form of strontium, known as Strontium 90, would be enough to contaminate 5percentt of the entire ocean volume".
"I was tagged right after 'Piano Man': I was a balladeer, I didn't write substantive music, my records were overproduced, I played too many ballads.
The office provided the ACLU with about 300 pages of materials, some already public, but largely rejected the civil rights organization's substantive requests for records linked to the informant scandal.
The first involved additional text stressing that the protocol was only a guideline and that variation in practice was anticipated and acceptable, with the proviso that any substantive difference was recorded.
Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, said his group's board decided to endorse Gov. George W. Bush and run ads against Mr. McCain mainly because of "substantive concerns about his record on right to life issues".
Trump has thrived on dismissing/humiliating critics, but has rarely given substantive defense of his record.
Is this election about substantive political philosophy, track record and proof of ability, or is it about entertainment and personality?
