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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 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...
• he effectiveness of a telephone conversation is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.
  -- Parkinson's Telephone Law...
• Martin-Berthelot Principle Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.
• Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.
  -- Thomas L. Marti...
• The number of adjectives and verbs that are added to the description of a menu item is in inverse proportion to the quality of the resulting dish.
  -- John Calki...