And it sabotages Major League Baseball's claim that, because most teams lose money, the sport cannot be a monopoly because it does not earn monopoly profits.A ballpark figureThe truth is simpler.
Edward Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang", the classic novel about fighting dams, tells of a hardline environmental group that sabotages dam-builders along the Colorado.
Mr Panagariya patiently applies the simple truths of liberal economics to a country that still sabotages itself with some dotty regulations.
If Iran cheats or cynically sabotages further talks, it will embarrass Russia and China, which have staked their credibility on the agreement; they might back more sanctions.
Cancer sabotages cells, then uses their resources to destroy the body.
Fagan also shows elsewhere that he has talent for arranging group patterns in space; but then sabotages the effect with the actual movement.
In the following story, the Doctor sabotages the Tardis because his companions don't share his enthusiasm for exploring a city in the middle of a petrified alien jungle.
This ability to flip scenes at will not only sabotages the tension, it makes us wonder about its logic.
In one of his stories, an entrepreneur sees that eggs are selling for fifteen cents a dozen in San Francisco and a dollar-fifty apiece in the Klondike and attempts arbitrage; nature sabotages his scheme, and takes two of his toes.
Undermining contraception and early abortion sabotages the future that most people want, one that expresses both their values and their common sense: fewer unintended pregnancies and fewer abortions, too.
He undercuts his friends, fails to keep even the simplest promises, and sabotages his own career.
