Meanwhile, Asa and the butler, Binny, try to understand each others ' unfamiliar ways, as Asa tries to understand what the purpose of a shower might be, dousing himself while fully clothed.

" Meanwhile, Mrs. Mountchessington still hopes that Asa will propose to Augusta.

Meanwhile, the Story Press offered Harper all of Wright's prize-entry stories for a book, and Harper agreed to publish them.

Meanwhile, the four destroyers at the head of the Japanese column maintained their heading down the Guadalcanal coast, allowing Wright's cruisers to pass on the opposite course.

Meanwhile, Harriet's health was declining due to alcohol abuse and she suffered a series of strokes that left her an invalid.

Meanwhile, the ACA has given Medicare the mandate to promote cost-containment throughout the health care system, for example, by promoting the creation of accountable care organizations or by replacing fee-for-service payments with bundled payments.

Meanwhile, Brown was forced to leave the team on two occasions due to health concerns, and also became involved in a series of rumors linking him to other job openings.

Meanwhile, Rothko's marriage had become increasingly troubled, and his poor health and impotence resulting from the aneurysm compounded his feeling of estrangement in the relationship.

Meanwhile, Akasa Raja and his Queen Dharanidevi were anxious about the health of their daughter, Padmavati.

Meanwhile, Congressional Democrats, labor unions and community safety and health advocates are attempting to revise the OSH Act to make it a felony with much higher penalties to commit a willful violation that results in the death of a worker.

Meanwhile, large parts of the developing world remained plagued by largely preventable / treatable infectious diseases and poor maternal and child health outcomes, exacerbated by malnutrition and poverty.

Meanwhile, Aman's health deteriorates.

Meanwhile Reddy's health started to deteriorate.

Meanwhile, the health of Carter's grandmother, Millicent ( Gamma ), continues to decline, and his mother, Eleanor, has difficulty accepting her divorce from Carter's father, Jack.

Meanwhile, ABC and SBS quickly began producing very successful local content with shows such as Review, Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure, Hungry Beast and many more publicly funded local programs, produced in Australia, with Australian cast and crews, adding to the increasing health of Australian film and television industries.

Meanwhile in Bourj al Barajneh and Tyre-area refugee camps, MAP and the Women ’ s Health Organisation are running a project developing a health visitor programme for community nurses.

Meanwhile, insurers responded to public demands and political pressure by beginning to offer other plan options with more comprehensive care networks — according to one analysis, between the years 1970 and 2005 the share of personal health expenditures paid directly out-of-pocket by U. S. consumers fell from about 40 percent to 15 percent.

Meanwhile Henderson was failing in health.

Meanwhile Kilmaine's health was slowly declining.

Meanwhile, Fantine ’ s health and her own lodging debts worsen while the Thénardiers ’ letters continue to grow and their financial demands become more costly.

Meanwhile, oil spills, gas flaring, and untreated wastes undermined the environment, and compromised the subsistence and health of both the Cofáns and the colonists.

Meanwhile, Edward Loveday's marriage is stretched to breaking point as he struggles to hold together the shipyard and family estate despite his deteriorating health.

Meanwhile, the Muslim territories surrounding Jerusalem began to be united under Nur ad-Din and later Saladin.

Meanwhile, Spalding and his brother began a sporting goods store in Chicago.

Meanwhile, with the advent and popularity of the MP3, sales of CDs began dropping in the 2000s.

Meanwhile, a human spaceship that was sent out to space long ago when the planetary winter began crashes in some foreign planet and the local civilization buries all evidence of the accident.

Meanwhile, IBM began to worry that it was losing control of the industry it had created.

Meanwhile, the rest of Europe slowly began a process of political and economic integration, with its aim to unite Europe and prevent other wars.

Meanwhile the Christian kingdoms in the north began the long and slow recovery of the peninsula, a process called the Reconquista, which was concluded in 1492 with the fall of Granada.

Meanwhile, the PNH, at the president's direction, began a propaganda campaign stressing that only the continuance of Carías in office could give the nation continued peace and order.

Meanwhile, the Scottish leader Robert Bruce began retaking all the territory conquered by Edward I.

Meanwhile, Jews from Arab countries began moving into Palestine overland.

Meanwhile the Muslims for the first time began to organize, setting up the All India Muslim League in 1906.

Meanwhile, religious scholar Max Müller theorized that religion began in hedonism and folklorist Wilhelm Mannhardt suggested that religion began in " naturalism ", by which he meant mythological explanation of natural events.

Meanwhile, one of his legions began the conquest of the tribes in the far north ( directly opposite Britain ).

Meanwhile, the prince Gisulf I of Salerno began using the title Langobardorum gentis princeps around mid-century, but the ideal of a united Lombard principality was realised only in December 977, when Gisulf died and his domains were inherited by Pandulf Ironhead, who temporarily held almost all Italy south of Rome and brought the Lombards into alliance with the Holy Roman Empire.

Meanwhile, Kim began gradually consolidating his power.

Meanwhile, manager Tony La Russa began his first season with the Cardinals in tandem with a new ownership group.

Meanwhile, Bravo began airing the reality television series Hey Paula, which followed Abdul through her day-to-day life.

Meanwhile, in order to compete with television and lure audiences away from their sets, producers of theatrical motion pictures began to use " widescreen " formats such as Cinemascope and Todd-AO in the early-to-mid 1950s, which enable more panoramic vistas and present other compositional opportunities.

Meanwhile, Italian troops began to pour into the sultanate in anticipation of this operation.

Meanwhile, Star Trek fans continued to grow in numbers, and began organizing conventions in the 1970s.

Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with Tony Hancock in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ( but having the invented middle name Balmoral ), who was a petty criminal who would usually manage to con Hancock.

Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers started to decline, while the decolonisation of Asia and Africa began.

Meanwhile, Nazi-Soviet political rapprochement and economic cooperation gradually stalled, and both states began preparations for war.

Meanwhile, the surviving Eastern Roman Empire began to expand under the emperor Justinian, who eventually recaptured North Africa from the Vandals, and attempted to fully recover Italy as well in the hope of re-establishing Roman control over the lands once ruled by the Western Roman Empire.