Work, family, a long book, a Kelly Tele, and big-city excess-opportunity inertia there's so much to do out there, you wind up staying home kept me from getting to Campilongo's residency on Ludlow Street.
Work, family, a long book, a Kelly Tele, and big-city excess-opportunity inertia — there's so much to do out there, you wind up staying home — kept me from getting to Campilongo's residency on Ludlow Street.
In these situations, the surplus value (earning in excess of opportunity cost) accrues to the rent-taker, instead of being spread among the population as a public good.
Where some saw wretched excess, others saw opportunity.
As Polak explains, "When two or more of these pumps are in the same vicinity it creates a micro-market for excess water, creating opportunity for the poorer farmers".
An elaborate coming-of-age ritual for Hispanic girls on their 15th birthdays, the Quinceañera has long been divisive in the American Catholic Church, where it is viewed as either an exercise in excess or an opportunity to send a message about faith and sexual responsibility.
The shoes Rebecca: If nothing else, studded, fringed slippers prove that ridiculously luxurious shoes are an equal-opportunity excess.
So the anti-monarchist group Republic saw the wedding — and its attendant excesses — as an opportunity to attract support for its mission.
"What's awkward," said Dr. Varmus, "is when the demands are in excess of the opportunities to do useful science".
Overall, the Great Recession in the West, triggered primarily by Wall Street's excesses, provided an opportunity for Beijing to stress that, in socialist China, private capital had only a secondary role to play.
Such measures included high absentee rates (which could imply manipulated enrolment rates), excessive schools fees, "excess" principal salary (40% higher than their opportunity cost), "excess" income (income exceeding expenditure), and "missing" information on grant receipt.
