1.   Clearly, though, the best way to improve your presentation skills is through practice and constructive criticism, hardly new concepts.

2.   The belief that government performance can be improved by better management is hardly new.

3.   Although alliances between airlines are hardly new, the agreement by the five carriers represents a new level of cooperation and coordination.

4.   Although illegal hoarding of tickets for resale at steep markups is hardly new, it has become an increasingly sore point for theatergoers, concertgoers and sports fans.

5.   And for Giuliani, who had already defined himself as a maverick within his party, questions about the purity of his Republicanism are hardly new.

6.   And the light is faint, indeed - a plan by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah that is vague and hardly new.

7.   Appetite-suppressing drugs are hardly new, but today a growing number of doctors and researchers say prescription drugs can safely treat obesity over the long haul.

8.   Anti-Semitism is hardly new in Russia.

9.   As a concept, video on demand is hardly new.