American investors keen to cash in on the China boom have poured money not just into well-established giants like China Telecom and C.N.O.O.C. but also into more speculative "small-cap" companies, hundreds of which now trade on U.S. stock exchanges.
It's not just the well-established tendency to be nasty.
"This just continues the well-established tradition of welfare for the student loan industry," said Barmak Nassirian, an expert in student lending.
But, more to the point, it quickly becomes clear that this series, which has billed itself as a new type of competition show, really just remixes the well-established gimmicks of the earlier entries in the genre.
And rather than just competing against well-established corporate jet fractional sellers like NetJets, which dominates the industry, Avolar plans a range of businesses including selling shares in corporate aircraft, managing planes that clients fully own, operating charters and shuttles, and integrating shuttle service into United routes in what Mr. Oran calls an "international interlink".
They are not just a product of unprecedented rainfall, but of well-established patterns of land use and river management.
It may be politically impossible to enact or enforce laws banning circumcision on religious grounds but let us not pretend that barbaric practices like this are acceptable just because they are well-established.
Nor does it explain why figures like Boris Johnson—just as showy and well-established as Mr Blair continue to thrive politically in post-recession, UKIP-tinged Britain.The truth (unpalatable to many in Westminster) is that voters like leaders like Mr Blair: salesmen, performers and, yes, actors.
DirectTV just might be that well-established friend, as it's nearly 34%-owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
