Rarely does a week go past without there being another report about how much this or that activity costs the NHS and thus taxes must be raised.
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Youngsters spend 15 minutes each week with a tutor, reviewing the past week's progress and agreeing on goals and a timetable for the next one.
The world may have changed radically, while you were putting in your 50, 60 or 70-hours a week in the past few years.
Yep, that's right: more than one a week for the past 12 weeks, and that's not even counting a couple tablets running Windows RT.
Investors tend to take profits after a big move higher and the past week offered a few secondary reasons for doing so, too.
As Lieberman enjoyed a bump during the past week, the tracking polls showed a sharp drop for Clark, who had the support of 21 percent of likely voters before the Iowa caucuses but only 10 percent now.
First and foremost, the bears pointed to the fact that their counterparts may have enjoyed just a little too much fun for the past week and a half.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, speaking at a tech conference this past week, dismissed some of Mr. Einhorn's remarks and called a related legal challenge a "silly sideshow, " although he said the company would nonetheless consider ways to hand back more cash to investors.
In a speech this past week, Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Marzouki filed a countersuit this past week, calling Williams' claims "ridiculous" and "patently false, " and accused the player of breaking off the engagement.
Cyclist Mike Darville, from Frome, said he had used the route "two or three times a week" for the past five years but had been stopped by a security guard on Sunday.
Mr Hagel was confirmed in a 58-41 Senate vote after Republicans stalled his nomination for more than a week, questioning his past positions on Israel and Iran and his qualification for the job.
Shares added about a buck the past week.
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Gen Petraeus, who oversees US military operations across the Middle East, as well as in Afghanistan and Central Asia, said attacks had worsened over the past two years and reached a new high in the past week.
Often over the coming years, the exact opposite of compromise, difference-splitting and cosy half-measures will be needed to deal with a debt crisis big enough to make even the drama of the past week look like a frivolous sideshow.
The vast expansion is clearly meant to signal to investors a confidence that the stock slide that has seen shares lose about 13 percent of their value over the past week is a temporary setback.
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Five games is not a minuscule sample, and to watch the Knicks in this past week is to witness a sad team transformed.
The National Republican Congressional Committee saw a surge in the past week.
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Kirsten Gillibrand, the likeable junior senator from my home state of New York, has been promoting a new initiative this past week.
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That call for transparency was a common refrain this past week at the security industry's biggest gathering, the annual RSA conference held in San Francisco.
Which is why a week like the one just past is such a sobering reminder that we are always just an unanticipated disaster away from a trip into the primitive America that existed before.
In fact, it is Germany's reluctance to have the central bank more deeply involved in the rescue of the eurozone that has made it so difficult to agree a deal in the past week.
And Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has attacked his reputation as a reformer over the past week, accusing McCain of trying to evade federal spending limits by opting out of public financing after using the promise of federal funds to obtain a bank loan and automatic ballot access for his primary campaign.
Thursday's trading appeared to continue a pattern of unusual moves over the past week between the stock and foreign-exchange markets, where a fall in Japanese share prices seemed to be driving down the value of the dollar against the yen.
"I live an alley and a row of houses away from a grocery store chain that I've been going to for almost 20 years and just this past week did I notice a row of pay phones right outside, " he said.
This past week, a hacker got into the Twitter account of the Associated Press.
The McCain camp did a masterful job of playing a weak hand over the past week.
Below is a copy of my remarks to a group of students this past week-end.
Just this past week, a federal judge in Texas tossed out a follow-up case.
Certainly broad market conditions have weighed heavily amid the sell-off over the past week and a half.
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