Is there, you know, remuneration?

The professor who invented it has the right to reasonable remuneration from the university.

Nowhere on the planet have all the creditors been bailed out in excess of what their statutory entitlements were.

But the larger implicit goal here is that they're actually trying to maintain the status quo of video games as a male dominated space and all of the privileges and entitlements that come with an unquestioned boys club.

But the problem with Santa Clause is, if you look at the mandatory spending of what these folks have been doing and promising folks, it turned out that in 1967, 38 percent was mandatory spending on what we call entitlements.

And everybody of course knows that the federal government debt is growing as a share of GDP at a very rapid rate, and the only way that's going to stop is some combination of faster growth in taxes or slower growth in entitlements, also called transfer payments.

The second unknown concerns what, exactly, separates the major parties in this contest. The Social Democrats (SPD) and the Christian Democrats (CDU) are both committed to the social market economy, to the essentials of corporatist economic management, to maintaining the entitlements of the welfare state, and to the EU and NATO.