Sentences with phrase «about the bean counters»

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The clients (and their internal bean counters) were always worried about the numbers - how many interviews had we done, how many were fully completed, how many customers were happy or unhappy.

He is not talked about in Matthew, Mark or Luke, but John tells us some about him, and it appears that Philip was the proverbial bean counter.

If you refrigerate this shrimp black bean salad, let it stand on the counter about 15 minutes before serving.

I really haven't the counter space or storage for a slow cooker but that mexicanblack bean chili is about to change my mind... i'm a big fan of tossing everything into a pot and walking away.

While do I not argue with you about accounts as I think you know your way and maybe you are a bean counter, the examples provided makes a mockery of FPP.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

The debate over Scotland's future has, especially recently, served up the incongruous (and unromantic) image of a nation of «bean - counters» basing its decision about independence on the expected profitability of either outcome, yet calculating this expectation (on either side) off the back of political and economic assumptions that resemble nothing so much as declarations of blind fear or faith.

However, the most irritating thing about this flick is the product - placement pandemic — sweet jehova, save us from corporate bean counters — I counted over thirty different US multinational companies.

We hope that even as the bean counters are clamoring about diminishing profit margins, Mazda continues to develop this engine.

Electronic shelf space is practically infinite, so writers can put their books out and go write the next one without having to worry about selling to the satisfaction of some corporate bean - counter.

I don't care about sparkly vampires, much less derivative stories about them produced by other writers because that is what the bean counters in their offices overlooking Central Park say will sell.

Columbus, OH About Blog My name is Mary, and I'm a bean counter by day, food blogger by night.

So what do you bean counters over at Sony have to say about this?

One surfer talks about his father's work at Save Our Seas, which is working with bringing ocean management back down to local communities in South Africa rather than allow bean counters to decide what is the proper level of protection.