Most of the health care portion of Tuesday's deal, for example, consisted of new fees levied on insurance companies and health maintenance organizations, some of which are likely to be passed on to their customers.
Perhaps its in the formula, the marketing, the pricing, the structure of the deal (for example the lack of time sensitivity, as deals can be open for days), but it's missing that awe factor— the intangible feeling of got-to-buy-it-now.
Mr. Horowitz may protest too much, making a great deal, for example, of the fact that Zdenek Macal performs the Second Symphony without cuts, a practice that has been more the rule than the exception for almost a quarter-century.
By the time of the New Deal, for example, Democrats had appropriated some of the planks of Mr. LaFollette, the Wisconsin senator who got 16.6percentt of the vote as the Progressive nominee in 1924.
The algorithms have been able to uncover unproductive behaviors, such as salespeople not spending the right amount of time at certain phases of a deal, for example.
If Rio investors are concerned about Chinalco's clout, they should demand that it make concessions on the other parts of the deal, for example, by taking smaller stakes in Rio assets or dropping a board seat.
Details on the deal are still pretty light; the financial terms of the deal, for example, haven't trickled out just yet.
"I wouldn't be surprised if there was a great deal of overlap between examples of this from the sports arena and the military, but we don't know," Dr. Perl said.
At specialist retailers there are all kinds of deals: for example, Expedia offers a flat rate of 200 points on flights.
