Yet a top-to-bottom tour of the building last week, from the 13th-floor garret, whose existence beyond the reach of the elevators makes it unknown to most people, to the stately second-floor meeting room where major policy decisions are made, revealed a world at once far more mundane, compassionate and productive than the picture of mindless, malevolent bureaucracy purveyed by the mayor.
The researchers' mechanical bug eye isn't yet a top-of-the-line model: It contains 180 lenses, about the same number in the eyes in fire ants and bark beetles, which don't have great vision.
No Brit has yet won a top prize at Operalia.
Has Bayou ramped it up yet?" asked a top Goldman Sachs executive in a 2004 e-mail.
She has not matured yet as a top- level senior athlete".
Performance isn't sacrificed either – this is the most powerful Exige yet, with a top speed of 158mph.
But Mr. Aso's comments on Tuesday were some of the bluntest yet by a top Japanese official, appearing to reflect growing impatience in Tokyo.
Complaining that no woman yet holds a top job – meaning the likes of Berlin, or Vienna, or Chicago – is to miss the point.
In fact, Senate staffers involved in the vote count indicated that the Senator who has not announced his decision yet is a top target.
This is not yet a ZZ Top revival, nor are many men citing Abraham Lincoln (even with his new sexual-outlaw cred) or Benjamin Harrison as models, despite exhortations to try a fully bushy look.
Yet a formerly top-secret after-action report credited Commando Club with guiding the following sorties: :: At the same time, Commando Club was directing missions westward into Barrel Roll's B Sector, as enemy forces bypassed LS 85 in their push deeper into Laos to attack Nam Bac.
