"Parenting" is one of those words, like "veggie," that worm their way into common parlance on the back of infectious social preoccupations.
They were caught, in chaser parlance, on the wrong storm.
But today many of those corporations have decided to postpone or cancel plans to set up databases or telecommunications networks, leaving many consultants without any work, or in their parlance, "on the bench".
In development is an alternative that will allow the posting of a request for quote, or an RFQ, in industry parlance, on the web and every interested bidder can simply download the package.
It was the day – the day-night, to use the correct one-day parlance – on which an international cricketer emerged.
In the parlance on our time, he bloody loves it.
In some cities, it is common on weekends to see six or seven sign twirlers — "human directionals" in industry parlance — on a single street corner, pointing the way to sprawling fields of newly framed houses.
He set himself up as the general partner of what would come to be referred to as a private equity firm and charged the limited partners who invested in his fund a 20% cut of the profits that he generated ("carried interest," in industry parlance) on top of a 2% asset management fee.
In last month's Monetary Watch, THE CONTRARIAN TAKE noted signs of a nascent recovery in private banks' willingness to create money by making loans and investments via the issuance of uncovered money substitutes, in popular parlance on demand deposit liabilities.
Edward Conlon's début novel, "Red on Red" (military parlance for one enemy soldier turning on another), takes a cerebral look at the moral and philosophical quandaries of a modern police force.
