These days, stand-up buffets are favored over five-course dinners, and turtle soup and caviar have been replaced with smoked salmon and pigs-in-blankets from Costco.
Instead of fitting on the roof or in the backyard, new designs these days stand taller than the Washington Monument.
What makes These Days stand out is that it isn't a retrospective box set or a rarities collection.
This is the starting point for the next generation of salarymen, who even these days stand a good chance of holding a decent job for life.
So Mr. Caron in these last days stands behind a cluttered counter, often doing crossword puzzles or reading a mystery.
And just as the Margaret Hague -- inhabited by rodents these days -- stands as a symbol of the Hague machine and the ultimate ruin wrought by corruption, the failure to demolish the hospital or convert it into much-needed housing parallels Hudson County's inability to cleanse itself entirely of the stigma that Boss Hague and his ilk left in their wake.
"Unbelievably, for the government that gave the unions the social chapter, several employment relations acts, new union rights, a cop-out on public sector pensions, the Warwick agreement, and the union modernisation fund, some journalists are still prepared to say that, these days, Labour stands up to the unions," she wrote.
These days, the stand and its corner seem both altered and eternal.
Favoritism could be a big problem for investors because very few funds these days are stand-alone offerings.
In Chinatown jewelry stores these days, clerks stand at doorways encouraging people to come in and "just take a look".
The most dangerous thing you can do in Egypt these days is stand around a police station.
