They know they are accused in places like France of destabilising the single market and the single currency in their quest for competitiveness and low labour costs.

ECONOMIST: European politics

Diogenes the Cynic wandered about ancient Athens carrying a lantern on his quest to find a single honest man.

FORBES: If Every Bull Is Expecting a Pullback, Will There Be One?

Rosales, a single mother, came to Project Quest, a sectoral program in San Antonio, Texas, where she was able to choose from among a range of professions identified by local health care employers as in demand: medical laboratory technician, medical transcriptionist, radiography technologist, and registered nurse, to name but a few.

CNN: Commentary: Jobs going begging in some fields

At the end of the book and after an extended exploratory quest, she is still single and judging the men she dates, no one measuring up to the new yardstick she has created.

FORBES: Single People - It's Not Them, It's You