The lesson was simple: if you have insurance -- even a policy that you like -- history and many horror stories indicate that it's only a matter of time before you are summarily screwed and left for dead.
(I keep a file of favorite NatSpeak gaffes over the years — "the right or left" became "the writer left"; "a case we summarily dismissed" became "a case we so merrily dismissed"; and "oxymoron" once became "ax a moron," which is often a tempting idea).
Canada's leader then stepped off the stage to take selfies with supporters as the journalists present were corralled to the back of the room and summarily told to leave.
Instead, he was left to lick his wounds, summarily removing the cosmological constant from the equations of general relativity and, according to one of his trusted colleagues, calling it his greatest blunder.
(Some say Google's vision was sharpened by Eric Schmidt's presence on Apple's board as the company worked on the future iPhone. Jobs was furious about Google's decision and summarily asked Schmidt to leave).
I left in disgust after a scene in which the Brad Pitt character summarily executes a prisoner, a German officer who has given his name, rank, and serial number but has refused to provide information about the location of his comrades.
The Gibson inquiry on rendition was summarily halted, after details of Belhaj's case emerged, and the questions it raised were left unanswered.
The group of French Waffen-SS men was summarily executed by the RMT without any form of military tribunal procedure, and their bodies left where they fell until an American burial team collected them.
It also points out that Royalty Pharma is willing to proceed even if it has to have a minority stub left with Elan's shareholders if it doesn't reach the 90 percent threshold to summarily squeeze out all outstanding shares.
(And it is his decision, solely, which again raises the question of how Roger Sterling, whose name was left off the latest organizational chart handed down from London, would be able to summarily fire art director Sal Romano).
