Countless interest groups, from trade unions to Sufi brotherhoods, throng the political stage.
The question needs to be faced in the wake of the bank's admitted efforts to manipulate the London interbank offered rate, known as Libor, the benchmark for countless interest rate determinations and approximately $450 trillion in derivative contracts.
This has allowed countless interest groups to flourish, given consumers greater freedom; provided businesses and entrepreneurs with new markets and models and given us all a greater capacity to shape our own lives.
It was a rival, Barclays, that set off an international furor when it admitted to a wide-ranging conspiracy to manipulate the London interbank offered rate, commonly known as Libor, which is the benchmark for countless interest rate determinations and an estimated $450 trillion in derivative contracts.
It was sheer thievery – the compulsory forfeiture of countless interest payments, a fair whack of principle, and her deposit to boot! Was it fair, for slackers to get housing from the state for free, when responsible taxpayers who fell on hard times were thrown on the street?
Also, a biased survey from a company with countless vested interests.
As a linguist and a classicist, among her apparently countless other interests and avocations, Ms. DeWitt uses Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" as a means of giving her book a mythic dimension.
On the face of it, business leaders have many of the qualities that we need in government: communication skills, an obsession with managing costs, and (to mix a metaphor or three) an ability to wrangle countless conflicting interests into a single, well-oiled machine.
In countless ways, interest in the loss of community, in the search for community, and in the individual's relation to society and morality have had expression in the work of the social sciences.
