coke, Coke, preseason, rent seeking

所謂「上有所好，下必甚焉」；中國的新世代年輕人眼見周遭老一代的權力腐敗、權力「尋租」（壟斷利潤）盛行，三五年社會經驗下來，也就 「既然喚不動山，我就向山走去」。年輕人沒有大權力，只有職務上的小權力，那也可以因地制宜，小小地腐敗、尋租一番。

In economics, rent seeking occurs when an individual, organization or firm seeks to earn income by capturing economic rent through manipulation or exploitation of the economic or political environment, rather than by earning profits through economic transactions and the production of added wealth.
Most studies of rent seeking focus on efforts to capture special monopoly privileges, such as government regulation of free enterprise competition, though the term itself is derived from the far older and more established practice of appropriating a portion of production by gaining ownership or control of land.



Did Englishmen actually ever have a unique right to act as they please within the walls of their own home? Well, yes and no. Yes, in the sense that it has been a legal precept in England, since at least the 17th century, that no one may enter a home, which would typically then have been in male ownership, unless by invitation. This was established as common law by the lawyer and politician Sir Edward Coke (pronounced Cook), in The Institutes of the Laws of England, 1628:

"For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium [and each man's home is his safest refuge]."

Frequency: (777)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: variant of Cook.
2. Americanized spelling of German Koke or Koch.



Impressed by the former Everton trainee's form in preseason, Nike quickly came to Carney's rescue and secured his signature to a contract. ...



Babos Ranked No. 2 In Preseason ITA Rankings
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... Babos ended the 2005 season with a 33-10 overall record, capturing the singles titles at both the Cal Nike Invitational and the ITA West Regional Championships ...

Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic

pre·sea·son (prē'sē'zən)  Sports.
n.
The period immediately before the start of a new season, in which athletes undergo intensive training and participate in exhibition games.
adv. & adj.
In, of, or relating to the preseason.