And Mr Brown's nerdy scheme is unlikely to deflect public ire over his colleagues' fiddles.
But setting targets can lead to all sorts of fixes and fiddles, which do as much harm as good.
For Mr Lammer and his like, a government for enterprise would bring not tax fiddles, but flexible labour markets.
Accounting fiddles, such as replacing Family Credit (spending) with the Working Families Tax Credit (not spending) have helped too.
The drawback is that because Amevive fiddles with the T cell process, the drug may leave patients vulnerable to infection.
With twin fiddles you get an interesting chorus effect when they are playing the same note at a different pitch.
The genre is performed solo or by a group of singers and an orchestra of lutes, fiddles, frame-drums and flutes.
His approval ratings have already taken a knock after the revelations of corporate malpractice and accounting fiddles at companies like Enron and WorldCom.
Because many of Enron's financial fiddles involved hiding debt, investors have been punishing any firms that appear to have over-borrowed (see article).
The system, he said, would not work if "everyone fiddles it".
But you have to wonder whether Mr Osborne will continue to talk quite so much about the fiscal fiddles that went on in the Gordon Brown era.
Dominating the symphony of second fiddles, according to collegepollarchive.com, is Maryland, which has spent a whopping 23 weeks at No. 2 over six seasons without reaching No. 1.
The big question now is whether Deutsche's bankers connived in their customers' fiscal fiddles as at least one former customer has claimed in a confession to the tax police.
To minimise fiddles and allegations of screwdriver plants, Suframa already requires firms to submit detailed plans of exactly which manufacturing processes they will use in their Zona Franca plants.
It was humiliating, but in contrast to the technocratic fiddles with which Mr Brown has hitherto tried to rescue himself, it was bold and big enough to be understood by voters.
People saw them for what they were, a hundred and two faeries and a dead boy proceeding down the hall with harps and flutes, crowded in the service elevator with fiddles and lutes, marching out of the hospital with drums.
But this is also the chancellor who courts private financiers to build public infrastructure, who stuck to the Tories' tight spending plans in his first two years in office, and who fiddles and fusses with the tax and benefit systems to ensure money goes to the deserving, not the idle, poor.
Peter Duff, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Aberdeen, told the committee he agreed with Lord Carloway that corroboration "could go" and stressed there were a number of "corroboration fiddles" used to get round the law and there was a lack of clarity in this "very complex area of law".
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