Walking down Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street late on Friday evening, the casual observer would find little amiss; not much to suggest that Moscow's trajectory over recent years, of broader consumer options and improving quality of life for the new urban middle class, was not continuing as before.
I'm not saying you have to put a rose on the table, or light candles, but a rib-eye steak and some dauphinoise potatoes don't go amiss.
Not everyone will agree with Bilmes that high-performing companies always "see their people as treasures, not as costs", but a bit more of that attitude in the public sector wouldn't go amiss.
I should have noticed something was amiss, but I admired Joy and was pleased to spend time with her.
To the outside world, said Lorlene, there must be nothing amiss.
However, when things take a downturn, instead of opting for the gamble of a mid-season sacking or ending up at the mercy of a predictable end-of-term managerial merry-go-round, maybe a bit of increased effort in support from the club's side wouldn't go amiss?
The numbers certainly suggest that something is amiss.
Even more worrisome for those who place their faith in America's huge, liquid and sophisticated capital markets is that none of those outsiders paid to monitor Enron whether their auditors, their bankers, equity analysts, credit-rating agencies or regulators alerted anyone that something was amiss, until it was far too late.
A certain amount of fraud is inevitable, so the firm did not notice at first that anything was amiss, explains Chizu Sasaki of Yahoo!
Obviously, the data were showing something amiss and were dismissed far too quickly.
Don't take the following analogy amiss: he is of course a decent man.
