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- noun Alternative spelling of
bean counter .
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Examples
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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. 2009
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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.
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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.
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Artists have claimed that his "bean-counter" approach to music hasn't worked.
EMI: the £4.2bn deal that turned the best of friends into bitter enemies Zoe Wood 2010
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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. 2009
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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.
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Your host will want to know if you're a social animal or a just-the-facts bean-counter.
How To Ace A Job Interview Meal Bill Rosenthal 2010
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Your host will want to know if you're a social animal or a just-the-facts bean-counter.
How To Ace A Job Interview Meal Bill Rosenthal 2010
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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.
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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.
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