They could debate the minutiae of the economy among themselves, then manoeuvre the growth rate this way or that, without deferring to anyone.
You can wage a war without deferring to allies or sharing the spoils, regardless of the wisdom of that, but the home front doesn't put up with unilateralists -- except maybe Alan Greenspan.
The ultimate significance of a string of tweets can always be questioned, but that a hashtag conversation on Twitter could have such resonance speaks to just how desperate Asian-Americans have been to talk about identity without deferring to the familiar binaries that shape most discussions of race in this country.
Its top-heavy all-Japanese board has been drastically slimmed and five non-Japanese executives, including Mr Press, have been made managing officers, which means that they sit on the executive committee in Tokyo, but are also left free to run their overseas operations on a day-to-day basis without deferring to head office.
But with $57.5 million deferred without interest, the present-day value is reduced to about 75percentt of the total.
Pujols is due to make $16 million this season in the final year of his contract, with $4 million of the total deferred without interest.
But the offer includes a significant amount of money that would be deferred without interest, reducing the present-day value closer to $12 million a year instead of $15 million.
He is eligible for free agency after this year and has rejected a six-year, $72 million offer from the Orioles; $12 million in that proposal would be deferred, without interest.
Among the others, Kenny Rogers (Texas) and Aaron Sele (Seattle) came closest at $7.5 million a year, though, as with Finley, some of Rogers's money is deferred without interest, making the present-day value lower.
Jonathan Bate treads carefully in the introduction to his new edition of Clare's poetry, " 'I Am': The Selected Poetry of John Clare," expressing gratitude to Robinson without exactly deferring to his claim to own the copyrights.
