But these days I wonder if I missed out on a chance to turn a bad job into the equivalent of night business school.
The formation of mitochondria, a major breakthrough in the history of life, seems to have been the biological equivalent of a business merger.
These images, said Kristine Woodward, who runs the gallery with her husband, are an example of creative marketing: an artist's equivalent of the business card.
Passengers who book an upper-class seat, the equivalent of British Airways' business class, on any Virgin Atlantic flight can be buffed up by a masseuse and manicurist.
When paired with white sheets, a duvet cover called Pinstripe ($175 at the Terence Conran Shop) is the sleepy-time equivalent of a business suit.
The campaign, which hackers have dubbed #OpIsrael, is essentially the digital equivalent of a business getting hit with graffiti; it is a costly nuisance, but eventually databases can be recovered, messages removed and sites come back online.
James B. Francis Jr., a friend and informal adviser to Mr. Bush, has worked as a political adviser to Mr. Wyly, counseling him in 1997 on a proposal in the Texas Legislature -- that both Mr. Wyly and Mr. Bush opposed -- that would have caused certain investment partnerships to pay the state equivalent of a business income tax.
Top pitchers and batters are the equivalent of the business world's Jack Welch or Louis Gerstner, the very best at their particular game, and thus worth every dime.
It's like the emoji equivalent of local business reviews, letting users rate a place with at-a-glance descriptors like "spicy" or "authentic" rather than digging through a bunch of not very searchable words.
Moo.com, the online-to-print business card company that was one of the UK's earlier startup successes, is branching out: it is buying all of the assets of Flavors.me, the site where people can create online personal profiles, effectively the digital equivalent of the business card.
