The dial turns steadily still.
First, Iowa has been turning steadily to the left.
During the 80s his act turned steadily more political as he inveighed against the corruption that was steadily engulfing Italy under its then Socialist prime minister, Bettino Craxi.
But in his most recent work, that is rarely the case; he seems to have turned steadily away from predictable sequences of rhythm, dynamics or color.
For nearly 14 years, Mr. Bruno, 79, has been the courtly, wisecracking face of a hard-edged political machine, one that kept Republicans in control of the State Senate even as New York turned steadily more Democratic.
"The only presidents I'm worrying about today is U.S. Grant or maybe a couple of Lincolns," said Bill Williams, a retired printer, who watched as his pile of bills turned steadily to silver.
Employment in America turned in a surprisingly poor performance in November, indicating that recovery still hasn't gotten the job creation machine turning steadily.This morning, the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported a disappointing gain of only 39,000 jobs for the month of November.
But local opinion of him turned steadily less mixed over the past decade as his company's stock tanked and he was sued by his shareholders and then accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors of overseeing an accounting fraud that ran into the billions.
With the outcome, at 55 votes to 33, a foregone conclusion in a state that has turned steadily to the right in recent years, two House Republican leaders spoke briefly in favor of the bill, and not a single legislator spoke against it.
