I’m afraid I took up the catchy-sounding phrase that supplies today’s puzzle’s title without any clear idea of what it meant. Something to do with airplane seating policies? Corporate layoffs? Is it a terse statement of the cultural truism that, when the worst things grow popular, the best are neglected?
According to Wikipedia, it is most commonly used to describe an accounting method designed to evade taxes in times of inflation. Oh well. It makes a good crossword title anyway.
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A crossword of mine appears Monday, August 24, in the New York Times