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With fewer resources to expend and a growing client base to serve, LSC has embraced service area reconfiguration as one important way to "insure that grants and contracts are made so as to provide the most economical and effective delivery of legal assistance to persons in both urban and rural areas."
Professor Norrick might be offended to find a review of his book so closely associated with what he might consider to be trivial, but he does expend a great deal of text describing the various forms of humor--sorry, I cannot resist the punctuation-- that come from one-liners and clichés (many of which, after all, are quotations).
They don't drool or wear their shirts backward, but they do expend insane amounts of energy on ridiculous "politics," dissipating most of it through meaningless infighting and petty posturing.
A perfectly efficient government would find its platforms instantly implemented; a completely inefficient one would expend all its resources without accomplishing any of its goals.
In rich countries we have quite happily eradicated them from our inner ecosystems with none of the handwringing we expend on rhinos.