Word: veering
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...Sure enough, Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer limited himself to calling the results a "competitive set of earnings." And he was quick to point out that "Shell has the largest capital spending program in our industry today, to ... play our part in ensuring that energy markets remain well supplied." That slight air of defensiveness is easy to understand. Where corporate profits are concerned, "everybody thinks it goes into the pockets of senior people," says Webley. "That is far from the case." The suggestion is that Shell and BP's profits will be plowed back into exploration...
...veer off the traditional (and lucrative) career path is an anomaly for the average Harvard student. It is the unfortunate case that even in the Harvard schools that specifically cater to those looking to do the most good, most notably Harvard Law School (HLS) and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), students often choose the easier, more visible road to immediate monetary success.HLS and the KSG have both taken measures in recent years in an attempt to reverse the trend, but it is not yet clear whether these steps will be enough to stop students from moving away from jobs...
...goals for a publicly traded company. Those may have been the right choices at the time, Schultz wrote, but together they ultimately diluted the coffee-centric experience. "We want to have the courage to do the things that support the core purpose and the reason for being and not veer off and get caught up in chasing revenue, because long-term value for the shareholder can only be achieved if you create long-term value for the customer and your people," Schultz says. "We have to get back to what...
...reality is that policy advisors from most campaigns talk to the media with some regularity, most often off the record or on background, and reporters usually give them a pass if they veer clumsily into politics or say something silly. They are, after all, policy wonks, not political pros...
...international media has heavily criticized harsher interpretations and practices of Shariah in the past. In some Islamic states, extreme punishments and misogynistic attitudes toward women are a reality. Heavy media criticism is thus fair in such cases, where Shariah sentences—such as punishment by stoning—veer from the embedded standards of human rights. Williams was not proposing a carte blanche for this set of laws. Merely, he wanted to express a confidence in the amalgamation of cultures, religion and loyalties...