Still, the rules of sensible time-management apply to procrastinators as much as everyone else.
Or the Wilde who dictates rules of sensible style: "The modern, high-heeled boot is, in fact, merely the clog of the time of Henry VI, with the front prop left out, and its inevitable effect is to throw the body forward, to shorten the steps, and consequently to produce that want of grace which always follows want of freedom".
The same rules of sensible conduct that apply at home, also apply abroad, such as visiting as many merchants and seeing as many similar pieces as time allows before committing.
5.24pm: "The lack of sensible rules of the road, so often opposed by those who claim to speak for the free market, led to a rescue far more intrusive than anything any of us, Democrat or Republican, progressive or conservative, would have proposed or predicted".
In the 1960s and 70s, strict capital reserve and liquidity ratios were applied to banks, and there was a panoply of sensible rules limiting the taking-on of excessive risks in mortgage lending.
The lack of sensible rules of the road, so often opposed by those who claim to speak for the free market, led to a rescue far more intrusive than anything any of us, Democrat or Republican, progressive or conservative, would have proposed or predicted.
"This comes as an embodiment of his majesty's sound vision and his method of sensible rule in the framework of his majesty's reform project, which firmly establishes the principles of justice, equality and transparency," said a statement on the Bahrain News Agency Web site, announcing the pardon issued by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa.
Free markets need sensible rules of the road.
With corporations on the American political scene for the foreseeable future, we need to adopt new sensible rules of the game so that we have fair, clean fights in elections to come.
We had sensible rules of the road put in place at the time of the Great Depression, thanks to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the forces that were unleashed, and then we have the dismantling of those rules, and whether it's Jimmy Carter, whether it's Ronald Reagan, whether it's Bill Clinton.
You have a very good detailed--and I don't mean detailed in the sense of boring, a very clear--you clearly lay out what other collateralized debt obligations and mortgage back securities and credit default swaps, and you actually trace this whole assault on sensible rules of the road.
