To many people, the whole business smacked of hypocrisy.
Barely two months after opening its first SoCal store at South Coast Plaza, door No. 2 is open for business smack in the middle of Beverly Hills.
To many, government meddling in business mergers smacks of discredited industrial policies that are more likely to produce a large, inefficient company than one that can take on the world's best.
To many in the art world, the much publicized controversy over the apparent secrecy in which Wyeth painted portraits, including nudes, of a female neighbor, supposedly without telling his wife, who managed his business affairs, smacked of canny media exploitation "The whole thing seemed a little orchestrated," said Ms. Broun of the Smithsonian, on whose board Wyeth served for 18 years.
Here's the other problem with using James Bond to make the argument - again, I'm just guessing that this is the argument - that a ditzy broad has no business talking smack to spies: James Bond's boss, M, has been a woman since 1995.
We started the business about four years ago, smack bang in the middle of the recession, which was good and bad at the same time.
But there is also scope for plain old aggressive business practices that smack of anti-competitiveness. (Why should other companies that sell Apple products be squeezed out of search results in favour of Apple?
However, as Zatz cleverly points out, the startup is also building and implementing both technology and a distribution network that may have other uses should its current business plan be smacked down in court.
Kids were going about their daily business just totally smacked out.
Well, it's out of that business and is instead smack in the center of the convergence of telecommunications, computer and television technology.
