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What trumpery. The issue is not the aesthetic merit of Tiffany jewelry but my parvenu pretensions in giving it. I was confronted with my folly a few years ago, while interviewing a marketing guru. "When you make a large purchase," he theorized, "there is a simple formula everyone follows -- risk reduction." His prime example, reading me perfectly, was the little blue Tiffany box, which he called "an expensive sign of riskless excellence...
Once a candidate surpasses the quota of votesneeded to be elected--a figure derived bymathematical formula and based on the numbers ofcandidates and votes cast--that candidate's excessvotes are transferred to the second choices listedon randomly selected ballots. The votes ofcandidates at the bottom of the heap aretransferred in much the same...
...civil libertarian perspective on free speech is essentially an efficiency formula which posits a free market in which all sorts of competing speech is sorted out, finding its natural value or water level. There are fewer systemic distortions associated with this natural free-market paradigm than with rules and procedures fabricated by non-market agency, be it government, university, courts, ad hoc boards...
...reveal his formula for success--where to stand, when to work, what to say--those are secrets of his trade. He emphasizes that this is his livelihood; that information...
Once a candidate surpasses the quota of votes needed to be elected--a figure derived by mathematical formula and based on the numbers of candidates and votes cast--that candidate's excess votes are transferred to the second choices listed on randomly selected ballots. The votes of candidates at the bottom of the heap are transferred in much the same...