They also wanted to give opportunities for something better to their children.
"This year, especially, with all the cutbacks, they might not have other opportunities for something special to do," she said.
In 1996 its Republican leaders unsettled markets by pooh-poohing the consequences of default before eventually granting Bill Clinton's request.The Treasury's ravenous borrowing needs also leave lots of opportunities for something to go wrong.
Instead of closing down the opportunities for something happening on stage, this version seemed to open them almost infinitely, allowing live music and a whole visual world to evolve before our eyes.
It is also true, as I wrote in a profile of her this fall, that anything can happen in one race; that each slalom run contains hundreds of opportunities for something to go wrong; and that Shiffrin, increasingly, has been susceptible to pressure, whether it be that put on her by the world, her parents, her coaches, or herself.
"Even if we're talking about the post-app era, there's still going to be opportunities for something new," she adds.
It is here that an opportunity for something new lies.
Every battle is also an opportunity for something ridiculous to happen.
"Sometimes change can be challenging," Mr. Handlery said, "but sometimes there's opportunity for something better".
"There is a tremendous space and opportunity for something real to happen here," Kraska said.
The opportunity for something similar in Europe remains impossible within the current calendar.
