He cited four factors — ground troops and significant non-air forces have not been involved, the lack of American casualties or a significant threat of them, a limited risk of escalation, and the limited use of military means — as the central points of logic in the administration's decision to essentially ignore Congress beyond providing largely perfunctory information.
We also have one called Beyond the ELB, which is the Explanation of Benefits, a mandatory document that needs to be sent to every member when they have a claim, but it also represents an opportunity to go further than simply providing the perfunctory information about the benefits that they are getting with a particular service.
Maybe so, but I hope comrades will permit me a perfunctory public information announcement, to relay the fact that West Indies are 41-3 after 12 overs in The Other Place, and Simon Burnton can tell you more about it here.
"All of our clients and everyone that we know of in the CMU sort of get picked up and taken to the CMU, and then get a piece of paper that says, 'You've been sent to a CMU, and here are the reasons.' It's a short, perfunctory paragraph, and often the information is inaccurate and unfounded.
But despite an international call for better patient information, "Innocents" illustrates just how perfunctory the response can be.
I am wary of mommy bloggers who do nothing than churn out perfunctory reviews of "great products," regurgitating product information companies post on their websites and assuring their followers that every product they promote is "great".
In addition, his report said Pricewaterhouse monitors received most of their information from managers, not workers, and did perfunctory interviews with workers inside the factory instead of in-depth interviews outside, where workers would probably talk more openly.
But vast amounts of information about you are collected with only perfunctory consent or none at all.
Instead of collecting perfunctory feedback that they'll probably just ignore, your managers should gather information that can help you maintain long-term relationships with departing employees (and induct them into your alumni network!).
None of this extracurricular learning feels perfunctory, especially when compared with, say, a novel such as Martin Amis's The Information.
"The most perfunctory search of the parliamentary register would have shown that the so-called new information was more than a year and a half old," he said.
