If sounds laissez-faire, it is anything but: this expedient-sounding political compromise, sanctioned by President Bill Clinton in 1993 and then voted into law by Congress, has created legal means of terminating the careers of longtime and, Mr. Frank would argue, valuable members of our military.
But if it does, it will be yet another example of expedient politics trumping sound policy.
Britain was not a direct partner in the talks, upholding its official stance of not negotiating with kidnappers by the expedient of having the Iraqi government sound out options.
In Britain and New Zealand, for example, finance departments are given broad authority to borrow in a manner they consider "expedient for the purpose of promoting sound monetary conditions" or in the public interest, according to a review of other countries' budget processes by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
But despite his astonishing success in charting a safe passage through its treacherous waters, mainly by the expedient of sending small boats ahead to sound the depths, Flinders himself was later stranded on it while heading home for England in 1803.
As a result, they are left with a "dual" labour market, split between the precarious and the secure, which seems to resist further reform.The OECD is a bastion of technocracy, wedded to policies that are economically sound, even if not always politically expedient.
Instead of "Yes We Can," the Modus Operandi of the Obama 2012 campaign sounded like "We Know You". It was the expedient route to power.
An expedient way of generating mundane effects is the "foley" technique, which involves matching sound effects to picture.
Bowie has done none of that: whatever The Next Day sounds like, he's turned it into the biggest release of 2013 by the simple expedient of doing absolutely nothing other than make an album.
