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...PARKINSON...
...Northcote Parkinson...
Twenty-one years have passed since Britain's redoubtable historian C. Northcote Parkinson discovered the Law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." During this time, Parkinson has not been idle. He postulated a Second Law: "Expenditure rises to meet income." He elucidated a Law of Triviality, which holds that the time spent on any item of an official agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum of money involved...
...Parkinson, who has confined his studies to corporations and government agencies, turns his talents to a broader field-humanity itself. After careful study of his previously discovered laws, he has reached the conclusion that Parkinson's Law is merely one aspect of a more general Law. "Action," declares Parkinson, "expands to fill the void created by human failure...
This observation is both more entertaining and more disturbing than his earlier ones. For as Parkinson formulates new laws, nations East and West grow increasingly unable to negotiate. The action that rushes in to fill this void could be one that has occurred many times before. It goes by the name...