How value-based purchasing will affect health care only time and human behavior will tell.
But time and human traffic have not been kind to the sculpture.
Unlike other resources, information is expansive, with limits apparently imposed only by time and human cognitive capabilities.
The picture had everything to make our hearts flutter with patriotic pride: a strongman defying time and human limitations.
But Paul Harding's Tinkers (William Heinemann, £12.99) – winner of the 2010 Pulitzer prize – is by far the most captivating exploration of history, time and human consciousness.
Let me say, though, that his book ranges far in time and human fascination beyond that central and barbarous piece of engineering.
GOOD design is often defined as an elegant solution (or a series of elegant solutions) to a complex equation whose variables include space, money, time and human behavior.
Yet much of Brautigan's work is concerned with death, the passage of time, and human attempts, however futile, at stemming time's flow.
Also at stake in the logic of crisis is nothing less than time and human finitude: our limited capacity to manipulate the future, aging and our impending death.
Even the famous cherry blossom symbolised passing time and human transience, and the overwhelming sense of melancholy was reinforced by Ninagawa's repeated use of the Fauré Requiem and the Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings.
Of course not just the actual food - estimated to have a retail value of around £20bn - is wasted, but a vast amount of energy, time and human resources to grow, harvest, package, transport and then ultimately dump it, too.
