It has let its record labels make its creative decisions for it, and it has managed to ally itself with everything that marketing surveys deem cutting-edge -- rap music, the Internet, CD-ROM's -- while hardly changing its boy's-night-out sound (except for maybe increasing the ratio of power ballads to rockers).
Prime Minister Tony Blair's powerful communications and security director, Alastair Campbell, has conducted a wide-ranging campaign against the BBC, the world's largest public service broadcaster, alleging that it has let its vaunted standards of impartiality lapse in the pursuit of what he has called "an agenda against the war".
In doing so it has let its leverage ratio — managed assets to capital — rise to $28 to $1 from $25, prompting Standard & Poor's to downgrade the company to a negative outlook.
It "has let its head be filled with what politicians say, judging a bishop without any proof".
The company has also taken heat in recent weeks because of the specific investors it has let onto its cap table.
In most of its 67 inquiries since 1991 it has let companies off in return for promises not to sin again.
It is mundane stuff yet it has let HP double its stock price in 23 months.
Today, Twitter announced it has let go of 8percentt of its workforce, and Wall Street is responding to the news.
In its attempt to tell us what to think, it has let us see the strings with which it manipulates us, and we don't like it one bit.
Though Oklahoma has maintained great secrecy around the source of its drugs in an attempt to circumvent the boycott, it has let it be known that it has acquired stocks of all three chemicals used in the attempt to kill Lockett– midazolam, vecuronium bromide, and potassium chloride – from FDA-approved pharmaceutical manufacturers.
