Because the chefs came, the list mattered, and because the list mattered the chefs came.
Speculation was last night moving on to consider times, dates, places, outfits and the all-important guest list – matters that will, in some eyes, outrank the forthcoming presidential election.
As Miller says, "Does the Cool List matter?
The size of the font on the Library of Congress listing matters.
For those who don't get that deal, the list price matters.
Each round of successive negotiations leading up to the conference lengthened, rather than shortened, the list of matters up for debate.
About this period of his life he often used to remark that he found the engagement book, the in-tray, and the list of matters requiring urgent attention to be the deadly enemies of scientific work.
The list of matters he wanted probed was wide ranging but included the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, various dealings of the Clinton Foundation and several matters connected to the purchase of the Canadian mining company Uranium One by Russia's nuclear energy agency.
And so climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.
