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” He was busily engaged with the notes, detaching one for five pounds and tossing it across to Comethup, while he pocketed the others in businesslike fashion.
Briefly and jauntily, with a delightful candour which under other circumstances would have been refreshing and even amusing, Brian informed his “best friend on earth” that he was in desperate straits, and near starvation point; that he had but one thing on which to congratulate himself, and that was that he was but treading in the footsteps of many men more illustrious than he could hope to be, who had travelled the same stony road before; but that the consolation demanded a large amount of philosophy to make it effective when it was remembered that actual food was not always to be obtained; that his landlady, who was a hopeless Philistine, refused to be comforted with promises, or with the possibility of seeing herself immortalized by reason of her businesslike connection with her impecunious lodger; that things were, in a word, at their worst.
If we shudder at the thought of humanity on a freezing world fighting a losing battle with gigantic crustaceans as in "The Time Machine", or being suffocated on a blazing world as in "The Star", or being crushed under the tyranny of an omnipotent trust as in "When the Sleeper Wakes"-if none of these please us, then we have the option of a businesslike and efficient organization of society under the domination of the engineer as in "Anticipations", or a socialistic state under the beneficent sway of the Samurai as in "A Modern Utopia," or an instantaneous amelioration of human nature as "In the Days of the Comet.
Levin talked now not at all with that purely businesslike attitude to the subject with which he had been talking all the morning.
" When the editor in chief returned from her vacation "and found Clare in place, looking both businesslike and elegant, she assumed Condé [Nast] had hired her.
Its counterfeitproof construction--which includes the use of unreproducible holographs--attests to the businesslike thought of its designers.
txt Harvard's $200,000 Question Harvard Law School has undertaken a process of long-term strategic planning "so as to maximize achievement of its core mission," according to Dean Robert Clark's semigrammatical but completely businesslike manifesto in the school's alumni bulletin.
txt United States General Accounting Office Comptroller General of the United States GAO June 1996 Executive Guide Effectively Implementing the Government Performance and Results Act G AO years 1921 - 1996 Preface In recent years, an understanding has emerged that the federal government needs to be run in a more businesslike manner than in the past.
With these two laws, Congress imposed on federal agencies a new and more businesslike framework for management and accountability.
For example, as FAA's Logistics Center was being reorganized to operate in a more businesslike manner, it trained employees about the need for, as well as on how to develop, quality work processes.
Berg had already been engaged a month, and only a week remained before the wedding, but the count had not yet decided in his own mind the question of the dowry, nor spoken to his wife about it.
At one time the count thought of giving her the Ryazan estate or of selling a forest, at another time of borrowing money on a note of hand.
A few days before the wedding Berg entered the count's study early one morning and, with a pleasant smile, respectfully asked his future father-in-law to let him know what Vera's dowry would be.
The count was so disconcerted by this long-foreseen inquiry that without consideration he gave the first reply that came into his head.
"I like your being businesslike about it.
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I like it.
You shall be satisfied.
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