Genuine bargains are lost – often literally – beneath swathes of unwanted cast-offs that charity shops simply can't shift.
A sell-off of swathes of the international empire run by Lee before he took the top job now looks likely.
(There were also several dozen fatalities outside Texas; Ike caused flooding from Louisiana to Illinois, knocked out power in swathes of Ohio, and spun off tornadoes in Arkansas).Houstonians went through a frightening night, with winds howling, trees falling and windows breaking.
The noise in the stadium before before kick-off was astonishing, swathes of yellow dominating the pockets of red, and the atmosphere only intensified when Fernandinho went in late on Charles Aranguiz, and the Chile midfielder and team-mate Gary Medel responded in kind by wiping out Neymar.
Much of the population has had little education, and vast swathes of the country are cut off from the rest of the world.
You have to ascend four flights of stairs, following a path of yellow lights through a maze of corridors, to arrive at the theater, an unpainted room with heavy red drapes on one wall, makeshift risers for a motley assortment of chairs, and on the performance floor a roomful of furniture swathed in off-white dropcloths.
It awarded exploration permits for swathes of territory, including in areas hitherto off limits, such as the fragile páramo tundra in the Andes.
Single-payer might be an effective rallying call in abstract, but when push comes to shove politicians and swathes of the public may get scared off by the amount of disruption and the tax increases that will be involved.
President Barack Obama will deliver a speech to Americans on Wednesday laying out his "game plan" to halt the Islamist group, which has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq, while trying to head off public concerns that the country could be moving toward about another full-scale war.
That, frankly, ignores the fact that there are vast swathes of Scotland which are comparatively well-off, well-behaved and rather pleasant.
