The watchful eyes of tens of thousands of reporters will deter traders in a corruption market far more effectively than the thinly-staffed discipline inspection agencies of the Communist Party.
The root problem here is that the credits are targeted on poor working families with more mouths to feed, whereas the tax allowance and minimum wage spread money much more thinly across a far wider group.
In the rich world, apps that obviate or replace the need to call in the authorities are merely useful; but in the developing world, where competent authorities are much poorer and more thinly stretched, such services are far more disruptive.
Not even Hampton's version can conceal the fact that the women, unusually for Ibsen, are more thinly conceived, but Abigail Cruttenden conveys the far-sighted practicality of Stockmann's wife and Alice Orr-Ewing lends his daughter a touch of fire.
For a sophisticated Wall Street firm, there is far more potential for profit in exploiting pricing disparities in a thinly traded Nasdaq stock than in shares traded on the NYSE.
Assessing the fair value of derivatives and thinly (if at all) traded mortgage securities holdings is far more art than science, with wiggle-room galore.
"It's a shell game — a thinly veiled attempt to appear to put revenue on the table while simultaneously removing far more with massive tax cuts for wealthy Americans.
Personal assistants say that the relationship can be complicated and far more nuanced than what moviegoers saw in "The Devil Wears Prada," the movie based on the best seller that was a thinly disguised portrait of Anna Wintour of Vogue magazine, or in "Swimming With Sharks," in which one character was said to have been inspired by the producer Scott Rudin.
If, like Parliament and the Commission, the Council really wants to give Europe a real chance in the context of globalisation, then it needs to understand that spending wisely is far more useful than limiting spending and that joint funding for joint projects is a more intelligent approach than spreading resources thinly between short-lived projects.
