The congregants also tend to respond fairly chastely.
But the answer could be this instead: individual members of Congress are responding fairly rationally to their incentives.
International thrillers responded fairly quickly, moving their operational theaters to the Middle East and retooling their plots for Islamic terrorists.
"Consumers tend to respond fairly quickly to sharp declines in household wealth," said Kenneth J. Matheny, senior economist at Macroeconomic Advisers.
While other commentators, responding fairly enough to what they were seeing and hearing, put their chips on Anthony's guilt, Grace bet the whole house on it.
Should we be surprised, then, that economic policy makers, after responding fairly effectively to the banking crisis, proceeded to lose the thread?
The political class has responded fairly nonchalantly to Mr. Munde's indiscreet admission, with some suggesting that their campaign costs were even higher.
Most responded "fairly dramatically" within days after such therapy and antibiotics, said Col. Bob DeFraites, the Army's chief of preventive medicine.
Put it this way: If something like the financial crisis of 2008 had occurred in, say, 1971 — the year Richard Nixon declared that "I am now a Keynesian in economic policy" — Washington would probably have responded fairly effectively.
But his administration has embraced a freedom agenda more aggressively since then, responding fairly well to the Arab Spring, rejecting those who wanted to stand by the collapsing dictatorships and using American power in a mostly successful humanitarian intervention in Libya.
