Word: consultant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...globally competitive client, I did not appreciate this consultation. Of course, The Harvard College Guide to Consulting had warned me: "As you can imagine, clients don't always want to hear what consultants have to say." I informed Pilate his strategy was inhibiting my global growth. Pilate chortled again and made several more rude comments concerning my personal appearance. After consulting with a rival consultant from the same company, I decided to terminate the client-consultant relationship. Pilate, glad to wash his hands of it, went downstairs to consult my neighbor on Mesopotamian divorce contracts...
...experiences with consulting companies have taught me well, and I am now planning to start my own consulting company, offering consultation to my classmates on how best to consult consultants in order to develop one's own consulting skills. To promote my services, I offer you this free advice: After watching your classmates make multiple, diverse and often repeatedly stupid decisions in their own lives, do you really want them telling you how to run yours...
Using the portal device, students may access e-mail in a lightning-quick fashion and view course announcements from professors. Professors or students' employers can consult portals to receive the latest information and leave messages...
Buckwheat sighed. "You probably know that Williams has been smarting because some African Americans have knocked him for not being 'black enough,' because he's more concerned with fixing potholes than delivering fiery speeches. So instead of telling the black guy to calm down and consult a dictionary, Williams accepted Howard's resignation." Buckwheat paused. "In a city like Washington this could start an epidemic of oversensitivity. You could have an explosion the next time somebody says there's a 'nip in the air' or a 'chink in your armor.' We've got to inject some common sense into this...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Friday approved two new labels that tout the benefits of moderate drinking for use right alongside the current labels warning about the health dangers of alcohol. One of the new, government-approved messages: "The proud people who made this wine encourage you to consult your family doctor about the health effects of wine consumption." Not surprisingly, opponents of the labels -- public health officials, legislators and drunk driving activists -- are coming forward in droves. "The labels are a horrific mistake, " says TIME magazine health reporter Janice Horowitz. "It is a wine maker's marketing coup...