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Do some calcs, draw a picture on a napkin, punt that into the cube farm, and hire a subcon to fix it.
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Once the two carriers merged Oct. 1, management sought to take advantage of the more relaxed United pilot labor agreement, which allows United to subcon tract regional services on airplanes of up to 70 seats.
United Continental Loses Decision Susan Carey 2010
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Of pertinence is the con - cept of “cognitive dissonance”: after reaching an uncomfortable decision, an individual will subcon - sciously refashion his beliefs to support its “reason - ableness.”
LONGEVITY GERALD J. GRUMAN 1968
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The direct response to beauty is accounted for also in terms of inner causation, as in the rousing of subcon - scious, latent, deep-seated forces or emotions, whcih cannot be analyzed.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968
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A car passing on another road half mile away might have caused it, and a subcon-scious suggestion of the same car drawing nearer had prevented him paying much attention to the first increase in its volume.
The Saint in Action Charteris, Leslie 1937
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Something long drifting in my subcon-sciousness turned to startled realization.
The Moon Pool 1919
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So the other big one is, if you recall, Ross, in the March quarter, we had that kind of subcon billing issue that we had to sort of we took a charge for to kind of settle that one or not settle, but at least get it covered from a P&L point of view.
unknown title 2011
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We dropped down in Q3 as result of that subcon billing issue.
unknown title 2011
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Gross margin excluding special items grew to 63.7%, up from 62.7% in the prior quarter, due primarily to a subcon billing catch up in Q3, which did not repeat in Q4.
unknown title 2011
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Thi s paramet e r i s probab l y th e r e in eve r y one 's mind a l t h ou gh, subcon s c i o u s l y.
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