While member states all agreed to this arrangement, everyone placed greater and lesser emphasis on different elements.
And when he closes with The Ocean, an old song given a spectacular, soaring new arrangement, everyone does.
In boxing, though, the top executives are managers and promoters, not owners and commissioners, which reflects a different, more unapologetic economic arrangement: everyone is trying to make as much money as possible from (and, in theory though not always in practice, for) every fighter.
The other reason for the silence could just be: everyone is skimming cream from the milk, everyone has An Arrangement, everyone has a Favoured Agent or Knows A Guy, and nobody wants to put the boot in on Big Sam in case eyes turn on them.
Everyone knows the everyday ruses, tricks and arrangements, and everyone jokes about them, even if this involves poking fun at the overzealous official who refuses to resort to them.
The thing about arrangements is everyone has one, but nobody wants to talk about it.
In the societies Mauss studied most closely — the Maori of New Zealand, the Haida of the Pacific Northwest — people rejected the principles of economic self-interest in favor of arrangements where everyone was perpetually indebted to someone else.
The job of director of trip advance is one of the toughest jobs in the White House, its occupant responsible for the myriad minute-to-minute travel arrangements for everyone from the president to the reporters who follow him.
However, I believe we are now at a point where we have found working arrangements where everyone has a role and where the communities themselves are beginning to engage directly with the local government staff and officials.
