Sentences with word «honcho»

The word "honcho" is a slang term that is used to describe a person who is in charge or in a position of leadership. Full definition
Quoth Stephen McGill (head honcho of Xbox UK) at a Reach launch event last night: «More than 34 million people have bought [a Halo game] and those people are going to want to play Halo: Reach.
Designate one of them as head honcho in your absence, and then walk out the door.
Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige has promised that Captain Marvel will give viewers a «unique» origin story for Danvers, but also says that he can't elaborate as to why it's set in the»90s without spoiling the plot.
It has the air of corporate honchos rigging the system in order to increase their bonuses.
The head honchos with unethical mindsets tend to cost the money: Fraud by owners or executives typically cost companies $ 563,000.
Since then, the top honchos at Facebook have come out with apologies, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.
E.g. I'm reading many top honchos from recruitment agencies telling us everything is sunshine and rainbow.
First up is a 2003 introduction to the film by Pixar head honcho John Lasseter (0:51, SD), who endorses enthusiastically but vaguely Castle in a Japanese - flavored shirt.
A hedge fund honcho who donates generously in support of charter schools gives a legislator lucrative employment as a securities lawyer while Albany is considering charter school measures.
Guests: New York is still the headquarters of the Big Two, Marvel and DC, as well as a host of smaller publishers, so there will be plenty of writers, artists, editors, and industry honchos on hand.
Hedge fund honcho David Tepper is rejecting arguments that stocks are overvalued and believes there are still plenty of opportunities.
He focuses on Wall Street honchos who saw the profit to be made in the sub-prime disaster, through the bundling of these mortgages into bonds, and then buying insurance called credit default swaps.
Back in 2014, Marvel Studios honcho Kevin Feige held a special event showcasing Marvel's output of films in Phase Three.
At the Build 2016 conference, Xbox honcho Phil Spencer, revealed that some of the issues people (including Epic Games» Tim Sweeney) noted with Windows 10 Store PC games like Rise of the Tomb Raider and Gears of War: Ultimate Edition would be fixed.
Simon head honcho David Simon was paid $ 2.7 million.
Ludwig Hantson, once the head honcho over at Baxter spinoff Baxalta, has a new gig: CEO of Alexion Pharmaceuticals, which is still grappling with the aftermath of some high - profile C - suite shakeup drama.
But voters who did turn out overwhelmingly cast their ballots for Meng, who had the backing of both Ackerman and Queens Democratic Party honcho Joe Crowley, and maintained a significant money advantage.
The Xbox top honcho said that Project Scorpio will feel premium but «not more than that.»
The whole trading training (Jesus, I've just noticed one Dublin outfit is now awarding diplomas — aah, they changed their name to something a lot more fancy... oh great, I remember the head honchos well from years back...) and online trading industries should be ashamed of themselves!
Xbox division head honcho Phil Spencer will be delivering news, and expectations are set for that news to caress the interest of both the Xbox and PC gaming crowds.
Barbecued rats in a subway tunnel are an early portent of the lava leak that catapults OEM honcho Mike Roark (perhaps an allusion to The Fountainhead's hero, Howard Roark, and played by Tommy Lee Jones as a rugged but not quite towering visionary) to the town's magma czar.
A nasty private exchange between NYC mayoral hopeful Bo Dietl and Reform Party honcho Frank Morano went nuclear today after Morano went public with part of it.
The document revealed that teacher union honchos in the Golden State are expecting that pending litigation may very well put an end to mandatory union dues, and they're exhorting local labor leaders to rise to the challenge.
Misconduct, originally titled Beyond Deceit, opens «by - the - numbers», introducing us to Ben (Josh Duhamel) a dedicated lawyer who spends most of his days and nights working at a New Orleans law firm, determined to prove himself to the firm's big honcho Abrams (Al Pacino) and become a partner.
Newcomer to the madness is Ricky Gervais as the smooth and smarmy studio honcho suddenly worried that the Purim theme of the film will put off the gentile movie - going public.
Meet Carrey's Popper, no longer a humble housepainter in the sticks but a rising real - estate honcho in the Big Apple.
(He thanked Searchlight honcho Peter Rice and Rice's «boss, Jim Jimanopoulos, or something like that.»
That's Amazon honcho Jeff Bezos, explaining his comfort with the idea of hardware from other companies — including Apple, which already tacitly supports Amazon eBooks by way of a Kindle iPhone app — sending customers to the Kindle store.
RIM marketing honcho Frank Boulben certainly wasn't spilling any secrets, instead rolling out some standard issue boilerplate in a statement, «A Super Bowl commercial is a great opportunity to show the re-designed, re-engineered and re-invented BlackBerry to tens of millions of consumers on the largest advertising stage of the year.»
In addition to the new Kindle Fire tablet unveiled today, Amazon honcho Jeff Bezos has just presented a new touchscreen Kindle at the company's event in New York City dubbed the Kindle Touch.
Ashton Kutcher looks spookily similiar to late Apple honcho Steve Jobs in the upcoming biopic jOBSs.
«Doctors, Dentists and Vets Announce Intent to Free - Ride on the Hard Work of Lawyers Main K&L Gates Head Honcho Calls for an End to the NALP Era»
Game designer Tim Schafer called Activision honcho Robert Kotick a «total prick» yesterday.
Jerome Armstrong, the head honcho behind MyDD, is advising Paddick on new media strategy.
And in the institute's 140 - year history, these corridors have been traversed by 59 Nobel laureates and 30 astronauts, as well as Dr. Dolittle author Hugh Lofting, architect I. M. Pei, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, inventor Raymond Kurzweil, Ford Motor Company honcho William C. Ford, suspected Al Qaeda agent Aafia Siddiqui, and NPR's «Car Talk» guys.
Double Fine head honcho Tim Schafer and Project Lead Zak McClendon offered an update on Psychonauts 2's progress, noting that the project had hit its first playable milestone.
At the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit, Chan - Zuckerberg education honcho Jim Shelton is overheard quietly telling his Gates Foundation counterpart that Mark Zuckerberg has developed a taste for «stranger things» and is hungry for more.
I've got enormous respect for NCATE honcho Jim Cibulka and for the co-chairs of the Blue Ribbon Panel — Colorado's all - star state chief Dwight Jones (about to become supe of Clark County, Nevada) and Zimpher.
Which may make Bellwether Education honcho Andy Smarick's argument for not undertaking any effort to reauthorize No Child a sensible one.
Speaking with Motoring at the 2016 Los Angeles auto show, AMG head honcho Tobias Moers confirmed the brand isn't looking to beef - up the X-Class for any high - performance variants.
Fans tore into the music honcho, with many completely bewildered at Simon for his momentary gaff
One way for Google to start to help reduce unnecessary energy use and global warming would be to get rid of the company's 757 corporate jet which company honchos Brin and Page used last week to ferry guests from San Francisco to Montana for the wedding of their friend Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco.
The English language version was scripted by Melissa Mathison (E.T.) and produced by Pixar honcho John Lasseter with Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy, and features a voice cast that also includes Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cloris Leachman and Lily Tomlin, among others.
The big question now is whether Huawei will overtake Samsung to become second to head honcho Apple in overall smartphone shipments in the world and the biggest Android manufacturer by volume?

Phrases with «honcho»

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