I also knew that it was important to expand my understanding of how the commercial world operates.

It has long been a source of dissatisfaction to me that the real world doesn't operate the same way.

The world depicted in these late works usually operates on a microscopic level.

He seems to have an endless supply of nuggets about the way the world really operates.

When it was built, the corporate world operated on a 9-to-5 schedule.

We know that's not the way Washington or the world operates.

He thought he knew pretty well how the world operated.

"Most schools, strangely enough, work the opposite of how the real world operates," he said.

But for the time being it's the way the world operates.

"I don't care a fig for the way the world operates!"