Editors of compilations face a trade-off between comprehensiveness and deadlines as contributors drop out or drop dead.
Wheeler, 83, acquired the 16th-century portrait by the Florentine artist Alessandro Allori from a German farmer-contributor who dropped in to the BBC's West Berlin office.
But in the process of coordinating that issue, crowdsourcing our FORBES Power List, compiling our own list, and convincing some very talented contributors to drop whatever it was they were doing to write for FORBES, I digressed.
Consumer spending, the largest contributor to GDP, dropped at an annualized rate of 4.3% in that period.
Wakely cited Nottinghamshire's Greg Smith, a solid contributor throughout the competition dropped to make way for internationals in the semis, as an example of a lack of continuity creating problems.
According to a recent study on barriers to girls' education conducted by UNICEF and the Government of Southern Sudan's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, cultural factors driven mainly by attitudes and traditions leading to early marriages and pregnancies are some of the leading contributors to girls dropping out of school.
The former prime minister's daughter was dropped as a contributor to the One Show on Tuesday night after talks with corporation bosses.
At his most alarming, Silver could "unfriend" (to use a term he wouldn't have understood) a contributor, who would be bewilderingly dropped for years without explanation.
Sales of DVDs, by far the most significant contributor to profit at most studios, dropped sharply across the industry over the holiday season.
I don't want it dropped, or opened to religious contributors.
