Or was it as many suspected — an inside job by Jeff Wilpon, who overreacted to the N.L.C.S. failure and set out to fix what wasn't broken by virtue of the crown of entitlement placed upon his head by Daddy?
His film debut, back in 1996, earned him his first Oscar nomination along with the vaguely unenviable tag "finest actor of his generation", a Hollywood entitlement bestowed upon young men who turn in a performance to knock your socks off while failing to be possessed of matinee idol looks.
The president talked about protecting entitlement programs upon which the elderly and the most vulnerable in society depend.
The scarce empirical evidence suggests that paid vacation entitlements agreed upon in collective bargaining contracts are often close or equal to 30 days per annum (WSI 2014).
Eberstadt's book depicts America as facing a spending crisis precipitated by the explosion of citizens dependent upon "entitlement" programs and other forms of government spending.
Still, some trucks take that license, that "I'm the youngest child and can get away with anything" entitlement up to the edge of tolerability when it comes to the realm of brazen, eyeroll-inducing, pun-upon-pun chuckling.
It was a community that was based upon mutual interest rather than age or skill level and didn't require a leadership built upon the entitlement of a hefty salary.
This paper describes the statutory and regulatory frameworks and discusses how these may impact upon patient entitlement to NHS 'services of curative care'HC1HC1' of the International Classification for Health Accounts ICHAA) taxonomy [ 4].
His bearing, the authority of his speech and his much-remarked upon sense of entitlement restored the requisite decorum to the post.
If some new savings or revenues (that is, taxes) cannot be agreed upon – possibly from entitlement spending such as social security, Medicare or Medicaid – this will automatically trigger another series of cuts that could give the Pentagon's balance sheet an added $750bn haircut.
