here-and-now

Beyond the Keynesian liniment oil of public spending, he's offering almost nothing for the here-and-now economy.

A Presidency to Nowhere Daniel Henninger 2011

For instance, if science were actually concerned exclusively with how, there would be no cosmological speculation or theorizing going on about the true nature of anything, about ultimate or final physical (or whatever) causes, and no reason to investigate anything we can't see and manipulate in the here-and-now.

Approaches Determine Outcomes 2009

As a labor guy 30 years ago, I was struck in the here-and-now by the contrast between Skico's response and what happened a few winters back at Smuggler's Notch in Vermont, where I worked two long seasons as a ski instructor for kids.

Michael Conniff: Con Games: Snow Job in Aspen Skico Pay Stinkeroo Michael Conniff 2011

It's dealing with the here-and-now where the summit again came up short.

Seventeenth Brussels Washout 2012

Base-shift dewarping can situate the narrative in an elsewhen displaced from the here-and-now in a third dimension.

Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

As a labor guy 30 years ago, I was struck in the here-and-now by the contrast between Skico's response and what happened a few winters back at Smuggler's Notch in Vermont, where I worked two long seasons as a ski instructor for kids.

Michael Conniff: Con Games: Snow Job in Aspen Skico Pay Stinkeroo Michael Conniff 2011

When the top system administrators quarrel among themselves, they bring down the most advanced technology, but the characters continue to be aware that they live in a world based upon science, albeit advanced far beyond the here-and-now.

superversive: Update?! superversive 2010

Strassel: I think what they're going to do is talk about the here-and-now spending, discretionary spending, which is what they focused on this week--bringing back down the budget to 2008 levels in that area, that realm.

Obama's Entitlement Trap? 2011

They had no long-term goals, no reason for education, just a view of the here-and-now that schoolwork was hard and that they didn't want to do it.

Wayne Hale: NASA Can Provide the Inspiration - NASA Watch 2009

Neither of these is incompatible with the baseline “did happen” or “is happening” epistemic modality if the narrative is situated in an elsewhen, adjacent to or ahead of the here-and-now — i.e. if we shift its base to a parallel or future reality.

Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009