Though Mr. Carter had constructed pens and outbuildings on the family farm, they hired an architect to design the house, he said, because "we needed one to referee between me and Rosalynn on what the house ought to be like".
He has spent the last several months refereeing fights between convenience store owners and state lottery commissioners, between the National Thoroughbred Racing Association and the online casino operators, between the Family Research Council (which supports the bill) and the Traditional Values Coalition (which opposes it).
Differences in refereeing interpretations between the hemispheres have undoubtedly played a part in England's problems.
It is a place, he said, where he and others typically spend their time "refereeing fights between the rich and the very wealthy".
One supporter, Richard Toes, who has tended bar for 22 years, said he is tired of refereeing fights between smokers and nonsmokers at his bar.
But it must now first inform American monitors, which may put them in the position of refereeing violence between the sides.
If it is big enough, and the terms are attractive, it could be an alternative to further capital injections.Sir Philip is used to refereeing disagreements between groups of shareholders.
He remembers chasing the huts around when the wind blew, refereeing fights between 500-pound sows who had laid claim to the same hut and trying to extricate them from the deep mud wallows.
There are, to be sure, a variety of reasons that Congress is zombified, but one of the least understood explanations is also one of the simplest: The city is too busy refereeing disputes between major corporate interest groups.
Many suspect Irsay has been refereeing a battle between his head and his heart on this one, and Alex Marvez of Foxsports.com believes his head will win.
