Word: proceed
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...crisis and bounce back in a couple of years. "But there is a danger it'll get sucked into a vicious circle of job cuts, sinking morale and political infighting," he worries. Already stretched by the A380 crisis, Airbus must decide whether it has the money and management to proceed with developing the 330-seat A350 in a bid to catch up with Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner, or focus elsewhere. Steve East at Credit Suisse First Boston in London, who downgraded EADS stock to "underperform" last week, thinks the company will cancel the €8 billion A350 program altogether...
...loved this Chorus Line because it dashed all the fears I had that the show's inside-baseball look at the world of showpeople would look cliched and self-indulgent in retrospect. When 17 aspiring dancers line up in front of the godlike director Zach (Michael Berresse) and proceed to tell their life stories, you fear (all over again) a procession of formulaic, encounter-group confessionals. And you do get a little of that. But the amazing thing about the show (Bennett's conception, James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante's book, Ed Kleban's smart lyrics) is how seamlessly dance...
...should be so deluded as to feel like they can say “nigger” in a room full of black people, claim some form of intellectual license, then proceed to look around bewildered when everyone in the classroom is glaring at them. Examining sensitive subjects in an academic setting is all well and good, but we’d all be wise to occasionally put down the history books, take a look at the news, and realize that we’re not out of the woods...
...around for tea and sweets after lunch (yes, it is Ramadan, so we made sure to praise the sole faster among us as we nibbled on syrup-drenched pastry). "You all believe the Holocaust actually happened, right?" I asked, confident everyone would say yes, and that we could then proceed to gossip about the Iranian-American female space tourist...
...flaws they cherished as much as her charms, sobbed their hearts out. Strange, isn't it, how the powerful get short-circuited from their power base. Too often, people whose job it is to lead by listening have the tendency to go politically deaf in times of crisis - to proceed as if nothing had happened, to sleepwalk in a state of bland or numb denial...