So while WellPoint has turned into the Goldman Sachs of health care over the last year, the company is a tightly run ship from a financial point of view.
The SNP's proposed Referendum Bill - which will not be presented to Holyrood this term - was like a "ghost ship" flitting in and out of view, according to the Labour MSP.
His cause was peace not a bad cause, but Ford pursued it with his usual black-and-white view of the world. (Every question had only one possible point of view: his own.) In December 1915 he chartered a ship to Europe to persuade the belligerents to lay down their arms.