Delaware, for instance, has allowed its tracks to have slot machines, with some of the profits going to bigger purses.
The DEA's asset forfeiture program, for instance, has allowed law enforcement agencies to seize millions of dollars in cash and property from citizens without charging them with crimes.
That matters all the more since other countries are copying the American approach: Britain, for instance, has allowed deferred-prosecution agreements since 2013.Some companies are starting to resist prosecutors' expansive legal interpretations.
The Netflix series "House of Cards," for instance, has allowed Mr. Fincher (one of its six directors, most with film backgrounds) to play with long-form narrative and enjoy the freedoms of working in something that is neither quite movies nor TV.
To further explain the idea of degrees of consciousness, Stamos draws an analogy with eyes and eyesight; he claims the eye originated in the animal kingdom at least 40 times, and each instance has allowed for different capabilities.
Quirks in the rules governing runoff elections, for instance, have allowed two former City Council speakers, Peter F. Vallone Sr .and A. Gifford Miller, to shift six-figure surpluses of campaign money into political action committees they controlled.
The company's own job listings, for instance, have allowed Google watchers and followers to spot advance signs of everything from its online office suite to a possible foray into the travel business.
In Australia, for instance, which has allowed credit card surcharges for nearly a decade, the extra fees were first imposed by service industries, like taxis, airlines and hotels, before moving to other sectors, he said.
The 2007 "open skies" agreement between Europe and America has done some good: for instance, it has allowed BA to go head-to-head with Air France, flying from Paris to New York and Washington, DC (although it recently suspended the Washington route), and Aer Lingus to compete with Iberia between Madrid and Washington.
Since the stock offering, for instance, Heidrick has allowed "parallel processing," letting different Heidrick recruiters present the same job candidate to different clients, often forcing Heidrick's clients to get in bidding wars against one another.
