Word: top-down
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...well aware that heavy-handed top-down initiatives are not the way to do business,” he said...
...During the campaign - and into February - Bush promised to not only reinvigorate the military but rejigger it. The Pentagon would receive additional budgetary monies only after a total, "top-down" rethinking of the Pentagon's structure, strategies and assumptions about the security challenges of the post-Cold War world...
...Critics insist that although Knowles, in the words of one professor, “has done very well by the University and the College, [he] is more comfortable with a top-down way of proceeding...
...right. In encapsulating the alarming “free speech, just watch what you say” mentality, Orr’s opinion holds that students do not have the wherewithall to decide what is and is not mindless literary garbage for themselves; it takes a top-down approach to decide for them...
...Current top-down methods of chip production use electron beam lithography, an expensive process that involves etching silicon into smaller and smaller pieces. Such methods will eventually hit a limit at which further miniaturization would entail extreme expense...