"Is that arrogance?" he counters, looking affronted.
"I taught you to respect life," his father counters, looking anguished.
"Until Richard Mille, there was the bean counter looking over the creative guy as he made a watch to fit the market," Mr. Simonian said.
Talim Johnson inched along toward the check-out counter, looking over her school's shopping list to make sure she had not missed anything.
Inside, as a dozen workers bustled around the open kitchen, the King's College students slumped over a counter, looking dazed.
Five high schoolers, dressed in matching navy-blue uniform jackets, sat behind Jeopardy-style counters, looking prim and coolly impervious as their elders bickered about where the fault lay.
By Katharine Williamson and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, January 18 , 1936P. 7 Lady and daughter were shopping at a five-and-ten-cent store, found themselves at the tropical fish counter looking at five small turtles.
"I have new floors, new fridges, new walls, new doors, a new water system, and he was down on his hands and knees under the counter looking for dust.
Somehow, the LR3 skirted the corporate cost-cutters (or perhaps Land Rover designers did a better job of masking the cost savings than their cohorts did at Jaguar) and this SUV came out of the meetings with the bean counters looking sharp, modern and upscale.
The stools at the counter looking onto the kitchen, where you can watch the cooks work the woks.
