Once again, Goldman Sachs seems to have found a clever compromise by appointing Lakshmi Mittal to its board.
This is a clever compromise if you haven't got time to cook them from scratch, sneaking a little of their earthy, slightly sweet flavour into the gravy.
This year, though, the show organisers came up with a clever compromise: when things went on too long, the first few bars of the Jaws theme – der-ner! der-NER!
The Dilbert cartoons of Scott Adams have long espoused the cause of the dispirited cubicle denizen and branded cubicles a sign of an uncaring employer.And as they have become near-ubiquitous, it has become increasingly clear that far from offering a clever compromise between the economy of open-plan and the privacy of individual offices, cubicles are in many ways worse than either.
The too clever fiscal compromises, the friction between Orszag and Summers, and the earnest discussions about behavioral economics were all part of a fairly self-contained process, one far less infected by politics than what comes next.
Republicans thought they had struck a clever political compromise by adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare the government insurance scheme for the elderly that is on track to bankrupt the country–in exchange for lifting the cap on Health Care Savings Accounts.
And although rich countries, which have produced most greenhouse-gas emissions, should act first, Kyoto fails to impose commitments on poor countries, even though within decades India and China will be the biggest emitters.Kill Kyoto to save it?Optimists still insist that such flaws in Kyoto could be fixed by sincere negotiators willing to find clever ideas for compromise.
Perhaps because I have an electrical engineering degree, I have this quaint, old-fashioned notion that people should understand that technology is not magic, it's just clever engineering full of compromises and trade-offs, with real quirks and restrictions.
It was a clever move: rather than compromise on the tax bill itself, he simply let Congress make its own budget cuts — betting that it wouldn't agree on what and how much to slash.
This was passed by 230 to 85 votes, but the compromise was little more than a clever ploy, with the intention of ensuring that total abolition would be delayed indefinitely.
