And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources.
He may have done this in response to the punch-up, I do not know, but the song provided a fitting backdrop to the festivities, as it is a pounding and relentless little number, and the bikers were pounding on the uncouth out-of-town youths relentlessly.
"Obviously we need to support that with costings, but I think the relentless focus on numbers by the media is one of the things that's turning people off politics.
That lineage is clear in "Touch" because the mute boy, Jake, has a superpower of sorts: He has a relentless fascination with numbers and finds patterns that, if deciphered properly by his father, lead to connections among disparate people all over the globe.
The finest minds at the NHS are puzzled by the relentless rise in numbers of people presenting themselves at A&E.
I can still remember my first days at Salomon Brothers and the relentless focus on numbers and results.
Now, shrunk from perhaps 90percentt of their former range by sprawling human populations and suffering relentless killing, elephant numbers are down to well under half a million -- a drop of 98percentt since just 1800.
Keith Vaughan testified to the example Sutherland presented to a younger painter: the sheer number of hours he spent at work, its relentless daily routine.
And while there has been applause in some quarters for the shadow chancellor George Osborne, it does seem odd that it has been Philip Hammond, the shadow chief secretary, who has been doing the relentless round of number crunching interviews.
"The relentless emphasis from Number 10 on delivery with a capital D", the setting of targets for which ministers and civil servants were accountable, and the belief that active government could bring about change meant that civil servants felt valued, which was "not the same with the governments that preceded it and succeeded it".
