The U.S. is now on the verge of a symbolic threshold: the point at which more than half of all American households receive and accept transfer benefits from the government.
Mr. Nealon, 66 years old, works with handful of long-term partners also in their 60s who "have worked hard to get our individual accounts to a point that is near the threshold they're talking about, " he says.
When I spoke yesterday to the business secretary Vince Cable, who is championing the reform, he confirmed to me that one point still at issue is the voting threshold which public companies have to exceed for their pay plans to go through.
Much like Kickstarter, users can request a screening, sell tickets to the event, and if the threshold is reached the screening is on (and at that point people are charged for the ticket).
The second alarming point is that when the complexity of a system reaches its corresponding critical threshold (critical complexity) the system in question becomes very fragile and therefore vulnerable.
The second point the GPhC makes is that the allegation about Ainsworths "would fall below the current threshold criteria for referral to the investigating committee".