His theme - that interventions by the great powers through the generations have added to the ruin of the Balkans - is hardly novel.

The idea behind the enterprise - managed care - is hardly novel.

These looks were closer to Mr. Ford's aesthetic but hardly novel.

As for plea bargaining, that's hardly novel in racketeering conspiracies.

The solution he proposes, switching to an alphabet, is hardly novel.

As General Lord's rhetoric suggests, these approaches are hardly novel.

The Anchor concept is hardly novel, but it does call attention to the often repeated axiom that new housing cannot stand alone.

To the Editor: The plot in which a man is born old and gradually "grows young" is hardly novel.

For another thing, the idea of staging "Winterreise" was hardly novel.

The technology, as safety advocates pointed out, is hardly novel.