Or, in the bread-and-circus, decline-and-fall department, the World Wrestling Federation is starting its own football league on the premise that professional football as it now exists is not violent enough.
Retail Britain's retail sector looked bleak as John Lewis endured a 9.8% fall in department store sales last week and warned of a "testing Christmas".
The commission also agreed that the officer who shot Sergio Navas, who was also unarmed, after he led police on a car chase four days later, did not fall within department policy.
While figures for last week show claims fell, a department spokeswoman said the decline probably reflected a quirk in seasonal adjustments.
Osborne said it was wrong to assume that all the burden of deficit reduction would fall on departments, so the IFS modelled some alternatives.
As with all shootings, the commissioners will determine whether the officers' decisions to draw their weapons and then use deadly force fell within department policies.
The numbers and percentages of patients who fell per department were 1,538 (8.8%) in medicine, 685 (24.8%) in geriatrics, and 289 (1.9%) in surgery.
Similarly, unless there is a strong national plan across government, the responsibility for tackling the problem often falls between departments – agriculture, social services, health – meaning co-ordinated, effective action is difficult, and all too often non-existent.
Yet the reports from the parks department fall far short of the law's requirements.
The New Yorker, June 18 , 1927P. 9 Rise and fall of the department store wax figures used in window displays.
