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• The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
  -- C. N. Parkinso...
• The effectiveness of a politician varies in inverse proportion to his commitment to principle.
  -- Sam Shaffe...
• Law of Legislative Action: The length of time it takes a bill to pass through the legislature is in inverse proportion to the number of lobbying groups favoring it.
• The amount of time spent by a committee on an agenda item is inversely proportional to the cost of the item.
  -- Parkinson's Law of Committee...
• Kirkland's Law The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
• Ideas endure and prosper in inverse proportion to their soundness and validity.
  -- Fried's 23rd Law...
• Atlanta makes it against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.