They are in the final, at home, on carpet, a made-to-order opportunity for a bunch of pretty good guys who have typically shown up for Davis Cup when McEnroe has asked, and now try to carve a little niche for their generation that lives, even now, this weekend, in the shadow of Sampras.
Even Fenway Park and the Red Sox come in for blame, for the staging of a sailor's homecoming at a July 4 game that left Bacevich all but retching over the "convenient mechanism for voiding obligation,... a made-to-order opportunity for conscience-easing".
In ways far more satisfying than displaying banners or bumper stickers, the Fenway Park Independence Day event provided a made-to-order opportunity for conscience easing.
We appreciate his decisive action to help address through Executive Order immediate opportunities for reform, and we applaud his broader commitment to finding meaningful common sense solutions to help prevent similar acts of violence in other communities in America.
If you are dependent on a high income to keep your life in order, your opportunities to take such low-paying "risks" diminish.
But for some of the other characters, notably assistant cook Daisy Mason, the dissolution of the old social order presents opportunities she could never have imagined before the war.
The heart of the order had opportunities to drive in the winning run in the sixth, eighth and 10th innings but failed to get a hit.
In short order, another opportunity presented itself: Kay Bailey Hutchison was retiring from the U.S. Senate, opening up a seat in the 2012 election.
Though the order includes opportunity for tribal input, the Bears Ears inter-tribal coalition has yet to hear from Secretary Zinke, notwithstanding numerous requests to meet.
Themes in this group are described in descending order of opportunity namely: 'smoke-free policies', 'smoking cessation support'healthlth promotion activities', 'target groups', 'policy environment' and 'health workforce capacity'.
