Insofar as I in the past had thought about the Valentine's Day formula, I had assumed most men treated it like a year-end performance bonus, which would mean that the better therelationship, the better the gift (however you define "better").
After 50 years in which Britain has struggled to define or resolve its confused, ambivalent, troubled relationship with Europe, the events currently being played out in this eurozone crisis look ever more likely to achieve that, while Britain remains largely passive about it.
We define an agency relationship as a contract under which one or more persons (the principal(s)) engage another person (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf which involves delegating some decision making authority to the agent.