Word: mereness
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...told (by the likes of New York Magazine and USA Today—“It has a European air and a Latin flair,” one article exclaimed, along with “Girls in bikinis!”) is available in Buenos Aires for a mere pittance, a fraction of what it costs just to scrape by in the Big Apple. $1000 per month, more or less, for rent, fine dining, entertainment, shopping, the works. Buenos Aires, true enough, offers up all the comforts of home and more: wide Parisian boulevards, the world?...
...published here) is its ability to translate his pictures into her words. Mann received little of that scrupulous and passionate attention in his lifetime. Toiling in noir and westerns, avoiding the big adaptations of famous novels and plays, Mann was thought of, if at all, as a "mere" director...
...Today, for less than $10 a night, you can sleep on real prison bunks, eat prison food and be harangued by local drama students dressed as wardens. If you tire of these power games, apply for day release: Karosta organizes walking and driving tours of Liepaya starting at a mere $2 a head. It's a great escape...
...could have given his political opponents a handy cudgel with which to pound him. Olmert was particularly vulnerable because of his lack of security credentials--in a country that often entrusts high political office to its war heroes. During his compulsory military service, Private Olmert found glory as a mere reporter for the army's radio and journal. (At age 35, seven years into his career as a member of the Knesset, he enrolled in an officer-training course, emerging as a second lieutenant and polishing his political rsum.) Not that Olmert seems fazed by his past...
...many observers in the Western world, Hizballah, the Lebanese guerrilla group battling Israel, is a mere puppet of Iran. Some are convinced that Hizballah triggered the crisis on Tehran's orders to divert world attention away from Iran's controversial nuclear plans. But client states are not necessarily as docile as one might think. Just as Israel sometimes takes actions that surprise (and even displease) the U.S., Hizballah does things Iran has neither ordered up nor necessarily approves...