Faint-hearted reforms, policy zigzags, yielding to vested interests, prizing popularity above making hard decisions, pretending that "everything was possible: ever bigger rises in spending power, ever lower taxes".
Meanwhile, meticulous unravellings of imperial myth will continue to interest the prize juries.
Navratilova and Evert helped lift tennis in the national consciousness, raising interest and prize money along the way.
"I'm delighted and thrilled by the level of interest," the prize's honorary director Kate Mosse told the BBC.
CONSIDERATIONS The problem with this uptick in interest in prizes is that certain fields are becoming overrun, and this can dull a prize's effectiveness.
But interest in prizes, particularly to solve government problems, has picked up.
That would have meant most counties would be playing meaningful matches until the end of the season, instead of losing any interest in prizes halfway through.
She has mediocre grades and more interest in prizes than in science, but he takes her on, tickled by her cracks about English majors and PETA.
Except for the Nobels, there is really not a lot of interest in prizes.
But No Cents may stand no better than a 50-50 chance of winning the competition, which would give the four couples in the club a total of $116,838.98, plus a bit of interest, in real prize money.
The British-Swedish company AstraZeneca receives patent royalties from HPV vaccines, and in November, AstraZeneca launched a collaboration with Nobel Web, the Nobel Foundation's Web site, and Nobel Media, a subsidiary company, to produce documentaries and sponsor lectures that increase interest in the prize.
