Simon Rottenberg’s 1956 analysis of this activity’s labor market posits that the no-notice salary reductions faced by some workers are offset by a large “psychic income.” The word “the” is footnoted with a citation to its OED definition in William S. Stevens’s parody law review article about “the common law origins” of a feature of this activity. The evolution of permissibility and presuppositions during conversations is notated by analogy (15[1])to this activity in a paper by (*) David Lewis. During his confirmation (10[1])hearings, John Roberts used an analogy (10[1])to this activity to advocate for judicial restraint. Laws that give life sentences to habitual offenders are known by an idiom derived from this activity. For 10 points, name this activity, the source of the phrase ■END■