The figure of speech finds full expression in the description of how to pick up women: Tie a rope around the leg of a bitch magnet and throw him out a car window while cruising slowly through a crowded area.

If drawing down such assets pushes the household below the Micawber threshold, then the estimated poverty-trap asset dynamics again predict that the temporary shock will have permanent, long-run effects.

Several researchers have made reference to an anabolic “window of opportunity” whereby a limited time exists after training to optimize training-related muscular adaptations. However, the importance - and even the existence - of a post-exercise ‘window’ can vary according to a number of factors.

Mr. Telson was a confirmed knob-twiddler. Often he would work along the whole range of his radio, to 'see what he could get.'