But, sometimes the proper domain isn't so cut and dried.
The pianist Brad Mehldau opened the concert and established the terrain with his highly functional working trio: it was depth and more depth, sometimes in proper scale, sometimes grandiose.
The problem, though, judges and law enforcement officials say, is that credit card companies sometimes flout proper legal procedures to recover what they are owed.
According to a slew of complaints filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, workers often suffer injuries such as hot-oil burns and are sometimes denied proper medical care.
Sometimes getting proper permits retroactively can be worth the time it takes, she said, but "it might be easier and cheaper just to cut the deck off".
In a global economy, ingredients for drugs are often bought and sold many times in different countries, sometimes without proper paperwork, all of which increases the risk of fraud, the authorities say.
The "nebulous boundaries" that Smith detects between Kennedy's business and personal affairs are evident in her own extensive introductory prose, where "Grandpa" and "Mom" sometimes replace proper names.
But he rightly recognises the near-heroic qualities of people like the Guardian's Maggie O'Kane, the Independent's Robert Fisk, or men like The Observer's Peter Beaumont or Jason Burke, risking all, often, and sometimes without proper recognition.
People have sometimes given proper names to particular animal endlings: Martha was the last passenger pigeon; Celia the last Pyrenean ibex; Turgi the last Partula turgida, a Polynesian tree snail; Booming Ben the last heath hen; and Lonesome George the last Pinta Island tortoise.
