Second step: They can sign a contract--symbolic, not binding--stipulating that, by a certain age (provided the business is not in financial distress) that they will move on and let the next generation take its lumps.

FORBES: Head Coach

In other words, by stipulating what states could not tax (the negative), the Framers implicitly affirmed their power (the pregnant) to tax anything else without having to seek congressional authorization to do so.

FORBES: The Paradox of Rights 'Granted' Us by Government

Along the way a friendly favor or two may be exchanged, the press ethic stipulating that any good turn not be in the form of a free pass that cheats the reader of full and fair coverage.

FORBES: Blindsided by Booms

Most of these amendments are mere time-wasters, stipulating, for example, that cheques may not be handed out on the floor of the House, a practice that is anyway illegal.

ECONOMIST: If in doubt, spend