There are all the usual opportunities to use this book as a starting point for personal writing, diaries, letters and journals which explain how it feels to be picked on or to make friends.
The day includes the usual opportunities for moral lessons -- the child caught lying, the one who's a bully, etc. -- and the simple solutions play out as they usually do in "Barney and Friends".
The Motor Voter Act that Clinton pushed has led to even more than the usual opportunities for fraud.
Even before Mr. Fossella's arrest, Democrats in Washington and in New York said they believed they had a better-than-usual opportunity to capture the seat representing the 13th Congressional District, which includes Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn.
As reporters entered the room where the two met for the usual photo opportunity, Mr. Karzai was asking Mrs. Clinton about remarks Mr. Cain made recently in a television interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Numerous big-budget movies have opened during the holiday season without the usual promotional opportunities for their stars.
There were hints aplenty under pressure in the brilliant Paris sunshine: shots off the frame; leaps that did not appear to leave as much space between the red clay and Federer's sneakers as usual; missed opportunities off short balls; and even — gasp — missed overheads.
The milestone will be greeted with the usual photo opportunities, platitudes and mind-boggling statistics; the PR stunts from sponsors who have invested hundreds of millions in the Games will increase; questions about what taxpayers get for their £9.3bn will get louder, as will government drum-banging about the benefits – all underscored by new urgency as the scale hits home.
They have the option to continue with politics as usual, or the opportunity to move health care past the realm of partisanship.
Instead, he lacked his usual dynamism, missing opportunities to create the clarity and focus that typically brought Republicans to their feet.
But if energy prices climb as high as predicted, consumers are likely to pay more attention than usual to the opportunities to be more efficient, and retailers expect the results to show up at cash registers.
