Obama's focus on inequality is timely and right, and apparently so clever that some Republicans are scrambling to develop a plan to move people out of poverty (which is hard to do when you are also trying to move dollars out of poverty programs).
Britain in particular was scrambling to develop a compromise that could attract at least eight or nine votes, driven in part by growing domestic pressure on Prime Minister Tony Blair not to join in military action alongside the United States without authorization from the United Nations.
Why should we waste time and money scrambling to develop a technology that may not even work, particularly when it is being developed to promote oil supply and keep us hooked on fossil fuels?
But that success has had a cost, too: Virtually every mobile-phone maker is scrambling to develop an iPhone-like device.
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, government officials across the Bay Area scrambled to develop new emergency communications systems that would enable a coordinated response in the event of a major crisis.
But porn was one of the few things being rampantly bought and sold online, and the financial sector, which hadn't yet worked out a viable system for e-commerce, scrambled to develop one on the fly.
Most interesting of all, some within the Obama Administration reportedly wrung their hands at the possibility of a Romney victory in the weeks before November 6th, and scrambled "to develop explicit rules for the targeted killing of terrorists by unmanned drones".
The combination of the world's largest Internet service provider (ISP) and the world's largest content company will lead to the online equivalent of an arms race that will see other companies scrambling to develop their own version of an Internet A-bomb.
But while the United States scrambles to develop a response to protests in North Africa and the Middle East, its policy toward Pakistan is crumbling — with no clear fix in sight.
Teams have begun scrambling to develop uses for the new data, which will be unveiled Saturday to a group of baseball executives, statisticians and academics, knowing it will probably become the largest single advance in baseball science since the development of the box score.
