Taken as a whole, the myriad descriptions and depictions of winters past serve as an extended narrative, charting a course of the human imagination.
But given the importance of revenue growth for charting the path back to surplus, and the high importance placed on strong income and company tax growth, it won't take many bumps in either the domestic or international economy to make that path rockier than Joe Hockey would like.
You could learn all this on Oink, which acted almost as a museum exhibit of Drake's critical afterlife, charting the repeated attempts to cash in on his growing critical and commercial stature.
The former Wall Street computer scientist is said to be a hands-on manager, involved in charting the company's grand strategy and the tiny details alike.
"Rijkaard launches the spit from here, now stop it there," he observed, before getting to work with his magic pen and charting the trajectory of the offending gully with an illustrative squiggle.
Over the years I would write emails at random times, charting his hitting prowess for no reason whatsoever other than fueling my fascination for his unique career.
He tries to find his way back to the site of the crash, charting every step he takes, yearning for the family he left behind.
In an email to staff Scott wrote: "In charting this new course, my thoughts go out firstly to those who face losing their jobs.
Outside a hospital across town is "The Miraculous Journey", a sequence of 14 permanent gargantuan bronzes charting an embryo from conception to birth.
Both in achieving their own objectives, which are still fuzzy, and in charting a course for the country to wend its way out of economic stagnation and social failure.
That's very obviously not something you want to have happen amid a brewing financial crisis, and yet Mr Bernanke seems fairly sanguine about it.The disappointment here would emerge because markets would perceive the Fed to be charting a weaker economic path than had been expected.
