bean-counter

• “Artists have claimed that his "bean-counter" approach to music hasn't worked.”

  The Guardian: EMI: the £4.2bn deal that turned the best of friends into bitter enemies

• “Many times, there are good reasons to stay away or where it is not feasible (disconnected environments), but the analysis must look at it more holistically than just a bean-counter review of the hardware economics.”

  Why McKinsey’s Cloud Report Missed the Mark

• “The response has been from some bean-counter MBA in the typical Wall Street jargon saying it's just business as usual and won't hurt a thing.”

  Cabelas has a pretty sweet deal going on their Gorilla King Kong HX hang up stand.

• “I'd rather have the government in between me and my doctor rather than some "bean-counter" who's looking for the best way to make and save a profit.”

  Palin warns of 'disturbing' health care rationing

• “Go ahead, if you think it's good that we live in a world which glorifies a dead-eyed bean-counter for sucking all the spontaneity out of music and television and replacing it with his own special brand of orchestrated, hermetically sealed spontaneity.”

  The Guardian: Watch this at the weekend

• “This nave ideology, that federal laboratories such as NASA should be run like a private business with the cold, untechnical perspective of a bean-counter, tragically contributed to the Columbia disaster and led to the subsequent hurried and flawed planning for President Bush's Vision for Space Exploration.”

  IFPTE on Election 2008 - NASA Watch

• “Your host will want to know if you're a social animal or a just-the-facts bean-counter.”

  Forbes: How To Ace A Job Interview Meal

• “Ironically, Henderson, with the corporation since 1984, mostly as a bean-counter, has met a very similar fate (though the White House says they were not involved - this time).”

  Steve Parker: GM - CEO Henderson out, Lutz still in

• “We never again want to hear someone went broke because some health insurance bean-counter decided that they had to spend their retirement money on an operation to save their life.”

  Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [81] -- Where Are The Democrats On Healthcare Reform?!?

• “It has always been the duty of the bureaucrat to standardize, be the bean-counter, calculate percentages, and try to fit square pegs into round holes.”

  The Educator as Bureaucrat

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