Amazing, it truly is, that all these workers, firms and households, acting without visible co-ordination and guided mainly by self-interest, manage to produce such extraordinarily beneficial results.
Let's hope that they got their money up front, and that the winsome Rose McGowan, playing a "Nitro Girl" exotic dancer who is briefly Gordy's love interest, manages to forget she was ever mixed up in a movie in which the only thing women are called upon to do is strip down to their underwear.
While pursuing his entrepreneurial interests Stillwell managed to obtain a first-class degree in international business.
Today, business interests have managed to thwart serious efforts to curb the problem of child labor abroad.
And for 30 years, special interests have managed to block progress, while antibiotics become less and less effective in saving lives.
But the Nevada gaming interests have managed to keep it from coming to a vote (it would probably pass handily) by spreading around millions of dollars in soft money to Congressional leaders in both parties.
As a result of the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (FEC), a handful of moneyed interests have managed to circumvent the democratic process and engineer a government shutdown that nobody else wanted.
The existence of multiple armed groups in Colombia reveals the many difficulties that the country's state institutions have experienced in imposing law and order over a rugged land where specific interests have managed to undermine national goals.
Suppose Cuban did gain controlling interest and managed to turn the Cubs into a World Series champion, breaking a drought that dates to 1908.
Still, despite all the avid interest, CBS managed to keep the big secret about who eventually survived the test until it was revealed last night.
