The film's star, Robert Pattinson, little known before Twilight debuted, has already scored legions of fans, lots of press and a spot on several year-end media lists of breakout stars (including Forbes').
He'll hand over control to Robert Gates in a little more than a week.
Wachovia's selection of a new chief executive, former U.S. Treasury Undersecretary Robert Steel, did little to put to rest speculation about the bank's future on Thursday.
Oliver (7) has blossomed into a fluent French speaker, and his little brother, Robert (4) can grunt his way through most situations!
Miller himself co-directs, in collaboration with Robert Rodriguez (plus a little help from Quentin Tarantino), and there is certainly no letup, or pulled punches, in the heightening of style.
They skirted the edge of the little meadow and Robert Jordan, striding easily now without the pack, the carbine pleasantly rigid over his shoulder after the heavy, sweating pack weight, noticed that the grass was cropped down in several places and signs that picket pins had been driven into the earth.
In this season of retreads--from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Demi Moore to Little Shop of Horrors--Robert Earl is right at home.
In 2002, there were attempts by the president, Mr Ouattara and the former military leader, Robert Guei to calm things down but this had little effect.
"Fiscal stimulus can temporarily lift GDP growth but it has little impact on consumer confidence, " says Robert Rountree, regional strategist at Prudential-Bache Securities in Hong Kong.
And that anticipation grew that little bit more last week when he beat Robert Karlsson and Robert Garrigus in a three-way play-off for his first US Tour title in 12 years - even if his victory was heavily aided by Garrigus's triple-bogey on the par-four 18th when the American needed only a six to win.
BBC: Lee Westwood relishes US Open challenge at Pebble Beach
Many recent electors have mulled switching their votes and little can be done to stop them, said Robert Alexander, an Electoral College expert at Ohio Northern University.
"There's enough noise in the Vioxx data that it makes the actual growth rate a little difficult to ascertain, " says Robertson Stephens analyst Robert Hazlett.
Investors were relieved last week when Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a long-anticipated round of budget cuts that did surprisingly little harm to major weapons programs.
"iLuv is delighted to unveil their third HD radio alarm clock product to HD aficionados desiring a little something more in their bedside tunes and sound quality" said Robert Caputo, iLuv Sales VP.
ENGADGET: iLuv rolls out iHD171 HD radio with iPhone / iPod dock, iTunes tagging
Although the details of her case provoked much horror and sorrow in 1968, there was little of the media-stoked outrage that accompanied the case of Robert Thomson and John Venables, two children from Liverpool, who also killed a smaller child, James Bulger, in 1993.
"This was one of our little secrets that we didn't want to disclose, " says Robert Knighten, peer-to-peer evangelist with Intel's Enterprise Architecture Lab, which develops software for big systems.
But, as I said at the start, at least a small part of me can't help thinking Mr Osborne will be a little bit grateful, when he stands up on Budget day, that Robert Chote has reminded everyone how independent he is, even if Downing Street does not feel that way today.
Robert Dole, enroute to Ontario, Calif. for a West Coast campaign appearance, expressed little reaction to the Whitewater verdicts.
But the curator of a National Museum of Wales exhibition to mark the centenary of Scott reaching the South Pole, believes that the Welsh obsession with polar exploration had very little to do with the nation's pioneering spirit, or even the charismatic Robert Falcon Scott.
BBC: Scott of Antarctic 'propaganda created Welsh obsession'
On a good day, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe can still muster a certain snarling comic timing, while his nemesis, Morgan Tsvangirai sometimes leans a little to heavily on his footsteps-of-Mandela image.
Though the first steamboats appeared as early as 1783, Fulton showed little interest in the craft until 1802 when, at a soiree thrown by the Barlows, he met Robert Livingston, a patrician New Yorker who held a 20-year monopoly on steamboat transport in New York State.
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