European nations have slashed their defense budgets to record low levels without much regard for NATO's overall defense requirements.
His family was loving and bookish, Cohn recalls, without much of a record collection outside Haydn and Mozart.
One of the skills of a master politician like Obama is being able to project more than one possibility about himself — and being young, without much of a record of political accomplishments, makes that easier.
Is he angry that Obama, an apparent upstart without much of a record in Washington, beat his pal McCain last year?
Harry Allen's Monday Night Jazz (Monday) A few weeks ago, without much fanfare, Arbors Records initiated this swing-minded monthly series, featuring an array of guests falling in with a band led by Mr. Allen, a persuasive stylist on tenor saxophone.
Duke's last two A.C.C. regular-season championships have been achieved without much drama, going a record 16-0 laseasonson and 13-1 so far this season with two games left.
Likewise, William Ackman is a noted hedge fund manager who has parlayed his investments in several retail companies into a reputation as an 'activist investor,' but without much of a track record of management or results to show for it".
In the United States money pours into pilot urban experimental programs without much of a track record like the much ballyhooed P-Tech in Brooklyn and because of local funding, it also goes disproportionately to suburban schools in affluent communities.
Mitt Romney's candidacy, and his willingness to just sit back for a month and let the Obama administration tee off on his record without much of a response, has well and nigh turned "Bain" into a "four-letter word".
The built-in microphones record audio without much fuss, but adding an external mic requires a bit of fiddling, so you may have to summon your inner roadie to get a good, clean sound.
