Word: mislaid
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...targets in war. Suddenly, the job of an accountant is not to total up a client's profits but to hide its losses. Suddenly, advances in technology seem to lead to economic setbacks. But not at the Olympics. The rules still count there, even when they are broken or mislaid, as in the figure-skating meltdown. It wasn't a puzzle, this miscarriage of justice--the world saw it clearly and almost simultaneously. One could judge for oneself what had happened and what it meant, and feel confident in that judgment. Ah, certainty! The Russians slipped up, and the Canadians...
...deals, and the people who worked with him, were never as impressed with him as they were with his boss and mentor, Skilling. It was Skilling who provided the strategic vision behind Enron, who transformed its old gas-pipeline culture into a swaggering, rule-breaking, dealmaking cult that ultimately mislaid its analytical skills and perhaps its moral compass. Skilling, a Harvard M.B.A. and former McKinsey & Co. consultant, had a high-wattage intellect that always impressed. Even when he was a student, people who met him knew he would do something...
...deals, and the people who worked with him, were never as impressed with him as they were with his boss and mentor, Skilling. It was Skilling who provided the strategic vision behind Enron, who transformed its old gas-pipeline culture into a swaggering, rule-breaking, dealmaking cult that ultimately mislaid its analytical skills and perhaps its moral compass. Skilling, a Harvard M.B.A. and former McKinsey & Co. consultant, had a high-wattage intellect that always impressed. Even when he was a student, people who met him knew he would do something...
...Ambrose's own attempts at exculpation are lame, there are some potential excuses for word and idea theft that one ought to mention. One is the cut-and-paste capability of computers, which can lead to a too-quick stockpiling of information, the sources of which can be mislaid. Another is the state of American publishing. Too many book editors are book acquirers, not readers, because publishers are so zealous for the bottom line, they don't pay attention to the lines above it. Ambrose told the Times he was cautioned by his own editor, Alice Mayhew...
...those who feared that Yorke had mislaid his guitar entirely in his flight from rock-iconhood, he dusts off his acoustic for the enigmatic solo “True Love Waits” to close the album. “Fake Plastic Trees” it ain’t, but the song is appealing for its plaintive simplicity. It would sound trite coming from many others, but it is carried off by Yorke with aplomb, not least because it is a respite from the dense bells-and-whistles approach of the rest of the album. You almost feel like...