Solidly played by the likable leads (it bodes well for Gillan's post-Doctor Who career), this unpretentiously efficient affair handles its dual-narrative past/present intercuts with aplomb and keeps a couple of nicely nasty tricks up its sleeve.
Though there were coups, they were efficient, French-run affairs with few casualties.
A Pareto efficient state of affairs avoids this failure, but it has no other obvious virtues.
Now, I am not saying this is a desirable, or even an efficient state of affairs.
Two sensational catches aided Vazquez's most efficient inning, a nine-pitch affair that prevented the Yankees from turning to their inconsistent relief corps for extra outs.
If a state of affairs is not Pareto efficient, then society is missing an opportunity costlessly to satisfy some people's preferences better.
Whether or not they get a hand from Congress or the I.R.S., owners of small businesses can give themselves a break by structuring their affairs in a tax-efficient way.
When Cameron trailed a £1m threshold last year, the Institute of Fiscal Studies said this would "abolish IHT for all except a very small number of very rich families who do not plan their affairs in a tax-efficient manner".
However, an agent's bringing about a state of affairs is a kind of efficient causation.
