But there's more to this story - described in painful but fascinating detail by Brian Reading in a new report for Lombard Street Research.
Clearly, the "great man" theory of history will always be ripe for debate, but as shown by a choice reading of CEOs the presence of a strong, charismatic leader can hold more sway in business than elsewhere.
But reading coverage of Congress by my American colleagues what comes over is shame and embarrassment.
International research tends to find that by the time British children leave primary school they are reading well by international standards, but read less often for fun than those elsewhere.
The smartphone preceded the tablet by years, but magazine-style reading apps that have long been available for the iPad are only now coming to the iPhone.
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Peto barely addressed that concern in his presentation, but the increase is highly statistically significant by one reading of the data.
Hitting the ageing Finns on the counter-attack is what is what Wales had to do and nine minutes before the break, Tottenham left-back Bale did just that crossing from the by-line for Simon Church, but the Reading striker could not direct his glancing header goal-bound.
But after the Superannuation Bill was given a third reading by 309 votes to 242, a government majority of 67, that provisional deal will be enforced if a binding agreement cannot be reached.
Stocks were hobbled a bit on Friday by a soft reading on consumer confidence, but several analysts said recent consumer spending suggested that the economic impact of that confidence reading would be minor.
But no margin measure by itself can provide a complete and reliable reading on profitability performance.
Manufacturing Production in the UK did improve, but missed the expectation by posting a 0.3% growth reading.
And not just letting yourself get absorbed by a good book on a regular basis, but reading with one part of your brain watching what the writer is doing and how you are reacting to it.
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The big one, I would say, and that others have agreed might come down the road, is really changing the deadline that requires all children to perform at grade level, not just in reading and math, but science and social studies by the year 2014.
But the Londoner, who was knocked out in the third round by Reading's Sprott last year, looked far from impressive in disposing of the American journeyman.
Mrs Baldwin decided to push her bill to a vote, but MPs decided by 40 votes to 24 not to give it a third reading.
Sure, you could dig many of these out yourself by diligent web searching and reading hundreds of blog posts, but Kawasaki and Welch have done your homework for you.
It would be hard to tell when reading what passes for market commentary these days, but all trades by definition balance.
The 52 major bank stocks in Europe have slid collectively by 3.7% in euro terms over the past week but the reading masks the fact that 11 stocks have booked gains, some spectacular and others slight.
The government won a vote on the first reading of the civil-service bill in June, but only by one vote, and that after holding back a clause that would have let state governors and mayors sack surplus workers.
Changizi begins by laying out the reasons why reading is not an instinctual skill, but a learned ability.
But it has been adopted by students who engage in intellectual pursuits like playing chess or reading history as they sip their pulque.
S. 146 the Brooklyn New School but wanted be a reading specialist, a job that has been harder to come by in New York City after budget cuts.
Market watchers said there was not a specific reason for gold prices to suddenly drop so quickly on Wednesday, but that there were several signs, including a 93% bullish market sentiment reading by Market Vane on Monday.
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Just viewing the game from multiple viewpoints could make for a fairly dry reading experience, but Kettmann manages to pull this off in fine fashion by imparting a bit of history to the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, and by giving the reader a chance to know some of the subjects as real people.
This was a small-scale study, but Prof Nicolson says the results are on a par with those achieved by the large-scale reading recovery scheme in the early 1990s.
But then the bar-bound group encounters yet another flyer, which advertises a reading that night by a popular author at a campus coffee house.
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But in 2006 Mr Wallace said he was again concerned by what he saw - this time at the Reading store as it was being refurbished.
Regardless, with this unit, we felt enough latency in the refresh rate to be bothered by it, but e-reader enthusiasts or people who really need to travel with an arsenal or reading material are probably more than willing to let that slide in the face of the other advantages.
Not just work "vitiated by errors, " but a decision-making process patently unfair to businesses, was the court's reading of Monti's department.
But refugee girls are now being taught the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, in a school sponsored by an organisation that has campaigned for women's rights in Afghanistan.
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