Yet to come will be abundant evidence of serial DWP policy errors.
Many companies adopt a "name, rank and serial number" policy, merely confirming facts like dates of employment and positions held.
"Popular Crime" contains countless tales of serial killers and policy suggestions, but all I could think about when I put it down was the story of Christian Ross.
In reality, lots of first-time entrepreneurs do get funded, so we know that a "serial entrepreneurs only" policy doesn't exist.
This serial nature of the policy process represents yet another advantage of incrementalism, according to Lindblom: it permits policy makers to learn through a process of trial and error, converging on a solution gradually through a process of successive approximations.
Fifty years on, with the town reinvented as a modern tourist destination, the lack of train services looks like an embodiment of the serial stupidities of transport policy, not least when you've been locked into long queues on the roads that ferry people there from the motorway.
For that reason, a policy of serial cervical length measurements is an insecure alternative to prophylactic cerclage in high risk cases.
The main alternative to prophylactic cerclage is a policy of serial cervical length measurements, followed after cervical shortening or dilatation by urgent or emergency cerclage with or without bulging of the membranes.
Topics include deterministic inventory models (EOQ, Power-of-two policies, ELS, serial and assembly networks), the Newsvendor model, multi-period stochastic inventory theory, serial and multi-echelon models, approximation algorithms, batch ordering and lost-sales models, infinitesimal perturbation analysis, distribution-free inventory theory, models for joint pricing and inventory decisions.
As we've gone through this year, stories of retailers tightening their return policies, tracking "serial" returners and going after returns fraud have become more common.
