But if the economy gets stuck, the glory days, at least of the Maktoums, may be numbered.
Tarhan Erdem, a respected pollster, says the number of women wearing the turban, the least revealing headscarf of all, has quadrupled too.
In Bolivia's local elections, exit polls suggested that the Movement to Socialism of Evo Morales, the president, had won at least five of the nine regions, but failed to dislodge the opposition in three eastern regions.
And while I had been to Jerusalem before, where Jesus healed the sick, and cured the blind, and embraced the least of these, I also had a chance to go to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Much as I love the march of technology and innovation, I remain skeptical of the techno-optimists who are convinced that just around the corner is the technological solution to all of our problems, ushering in the singularity or, at the very least, the United Federation of Planets.
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True, wine words can be pretty hilarious, mostly unintentionally, but for the record, at least some of the phoniest-sounding--take "road tar" for instance, or "petrol"--turn out to be easily experienced, reproducible results.
So, on the surface, at least, the balance of power in Washington after inauguration day on 20 January could be almost exactly the same as it is now.
Even with its baby steps into the search business, Facebook has again set new terms of engagement in the battle for the soul, or at least the cash register, of the Internet.
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But nobody should be surprised if some stern form of conservative Christianity, claiming the legacy of Wilberforce, emerges in one small corner, at least, of the politico-religious spectrum.
The 2010 awards, on the other hand, are like the kids' revenge, at least in the major categories of Record, Song and Album of the Year.
And certainly on the measure that -- the bottom line measure, which is one that would allow for the debt ceiling to be raised, the one created by Senator McConnell to raise the debt ceiling, at the very least, some variation of that needs to be in place so that the United States does not default on its obligations.
And, third, the data evidences, at least as of Black Friday 2012, the preferred mobile device for online shopping is the iPad.
But, in the event, the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan lasted nine years, cost the lives of at least 15, 000 Soviet soldiers and failed to prevent the government's collapse.
While the TV and still cameras crowded in, the chairman of the committee, Ike Skelton, allowed all the members of the committee with the least seniority to ask their questions first, perhaps a tip of the hat to the wave of new Democratic lawmakers elected last fall.
The important thing, from our point of view, is that the Europeans are de-leveraging, getting rid of debt, at least a little, around the periphery of Europe.
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Back from Anglesey - the mother of Wales, and in the past at least, the naughty child of Welsh local government.
Crusaders had Richard Moore sin-binned at the death, but that did nothing to dampen the euphoria of a win that, temporarily at least, lifts them from the foot of the Super League table, while Huddersfield were knocked off top spot by Warrington's 60-0 thrashing of Salford.
Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, for example, never made it to the short list, at least in part because of his work as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry, people involved in the search said.
He really laid out the problem quite well, at least, the problem of the last two or three years, that there was a speculative bubble in the price of housing, that the financial institutions, the banks and investment banks and all these insurance companies and pension funds and everyone else exacerbated that problem by spreading that risk all throughout the economy.
These stories remind me that entrepreneurship in the informal economy is complicated and those that manage to make it work, like Boyz and Be Good, deserve, at the very least, a great deal of credit for pushing the envelope to find viable and socially-acceptable opportunities for themselves, and for broadening that opportunity to others.
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Google isn't officially declaring this a Nexus device (not yet, at least), but the GS4 at least exhibits many of the same qualities, including an unlocked bootloader and the promise of prompt system updates.
The Bank of China, the least bad of the country's four big banks, expects that in five years' time consumers will account for half of the bank's loans.
But in the wake of the controversy, at least two of the bloggers who participated in the Microsoft campaign--Kedrosky and Malik, a former editor at Forbes.com--have distanced themselves from it.
The bundle of measures thrown to the financial wolves on Monday amounts to the end, for the time being at least, of all prospects of further economic reform.
When Mattson does consent to work within the normal confines of nonfiction, he operates like an academic with dreams of a mass audience, or, at least, the hope of receiving teaching evaluations that will commend him as an especially with-it prof.
Bill Paley, the quintessential corporate executive supported Murrow, the abrasive and distant iconoclast, at least for much of his career, allowing him to innovate broadcast journalism in the face of everything from Nazi bombers to vindictive U.S. Senators, without having to worry about his budget, or his job.
The Trianon de Porcelaine, Europe's first chinoiserie, was historically the least understood of these, fabled to have had a roof literally made of precious china.
But transparent, agreed procedures can, at least, narrow the areas of dispute and ensure that, even if a guillotine is eventually used by the government, the details of the legislation have a chance of being considered before this drastic step is taken.
Sometimes, the status quo, the path of least resistance while maybe not better, is faster.
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