He put his hand on the throttle.

It's that little bar there. He put his hand on the throttle.

And on Sunday morning the neighbors leaf blower comes out, and I want to throttle them.

You can see that the black regions in the upper right quadrant are the areas where he had surgery.

Germany, my own country, in the year 2000, featured in the lower quadrant, below average performance, large social disparities.

We've created systems, which systematically privilege, encourage, one narrow quadrant of the human soul and left the others unregarded.

We all want to be there, in the upper right quadrant, where performance is strong and learning opportunities are equally distributed.

And all that raises, of course, the question What can we learn from those countries in the green quadrant who have achieved high levels of equity, high levels of performance, and raised outcomes?

And if actually we created a Ministry of Detail and business actually had Chief Detail Officers, then that fourth quadrant, which is so woefully neglected at the moment, might finally get the attention it deserves.

In the Northwest Quadrant of British Columbia, an area of land the size of Oregon, there's one road, a narrow ribbon of asphalt that slips up the side of the Coast Mountains to the Yukon.

And some of the most heartrending emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout, pleading with me to write to their parents, to help them slow down, to help them get off this full throttle treadmill.

A stronger trade balance in the late 1990s would not have added to output growth or job creation, which were running at full throttle. Further increases in net export demand would have been met only by attracting workers away from the production of something else.

But the first fell prey to a long US occupation, and the second currently faces a US led oil export embargo designed to throttle it financially. As a result, America s efforts to give international effect to its new Iran Sanctions Act constitute a double whammy for India.

These types of spectacles used to be reserved for the nomination of Supreme Court justices a lifetime appointment to a nine member body that can overturn laws passed by Congress and signed by the president. But those full throttle battles have now spilled over to other nominations.

Yes, the chances of an immediate repeat of the acute financial meltdown of 2008 are much reduced by the fact that most investors, regulators, consumers, and even politicians will remember their financial near death experience for quite some time. As a result, it could take a while for recklessness to hit full throttle again.

International finance economists see a far bleaker future. They see the end of large scale dollar purchase programs by central banks leading not only to a decline in the dollar, but also to a spike in US long term interest rates, which will curb consumption spending immediately and throttle investment spending after only a short lag.

New York Even before the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, decided to throttle what little legitimacy was left of Iran s managed democracy, it was a peculiar system, indeed. Although Iranian citizens had the right to elect their president, the candidates had to be vetted by the Council of Guardians, half of whom were picked by the unelected Supreme Leader.

ISPs would throttle traffic from ISPs that did not join the security collective, and pretty soon their customers would complain, forcing them either to join or find themselves relegated to the underworld, from which it would be hard to launch attacks because no one would accept their traffic. And, because ISPs answer to other ISPs, not governments, dissidents and whistleblowers could maintain their anonymity.