To kick off 2013: A fundamental aspect of education policy that is posing a challenge for the Welsh government, hand-in-hand with the sort of statistics that Sir Humphrey would describe as "difficult".
The design is simple: it's just a plastic shell with a shutter button, a dial for controlling shutter speed and a hand grip -- the sort you'd normally find on a compact camera.
ENGADGET: Hands-on with Snappgrip, a case that turns your phone into a point-and-shoot
Turkey, of course, appears in the lower right-hand corner of such a map -- a sort of marginal nation, seemingly at the fringes of what matters in the world.
On the one hand, I can sort-of understand why many might be averse to looking at this firm.
Today only a handful of big firms have the sort of board that seems hand-picked to be loyal to the boss, chief among them being News Corporation, says Paul Hodgson of GMI, a corporate-governance ratings firm.
ECONOMIST: How can you tell a good board of directors from a bad one?
Now, you know, when I was a kid, and I got my hand caught in the cookie jar -- (laughter) -- well, my face sort of turned red and I took my hand out of the cookie jar. (Laughter.) Not Governor Romney.
Any risk at all in sort of throwing her into this hand-to-hand campaign?
On the other hand a very large player might be able to push some sort of Stackelberg-esque solution where she makes it blatantly obvious the conditions under which she will suffer massive failure and likely trip the slaughter rule.
Whereas their neighbours at nearby universities roam their sprawling campuses and prepare for high-powered careers, the Peach Garden children sit 50 to a room at rickety second-hand desks, learning how to read and counting themselves lucky to be in any sort of school at all.
Old-fashioned economists used to think that this sort of thing was what kept the Invisible Hand waggling lucratively away.
B-2, is on the other hand offered as evidence that this was a pretty good war for air power of the longer-range sort.
That sort of de haut en bas can get out of hand of course: one self-made man, Michael Heseltine, has been sneered at because he bought his own furniture rather than inheriting it.
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