Commanders are anxious that Obama is saving up a voter-pleasing announcement as he enters the last six months before the presidential election in November.
Executives at the established consulting firms might have been pleased by announcements of losses, layoffs and restructurings at new-wave consultants, like Scient and MarchFirst, which grew explosively in recent years to help dot-coms and other businesses rush something -- anything -- onto the Web.
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In a crowd-pleasing announcement, Mr Clegg disclosed that the value of British aid being sent to Pakistan was to more than double.
Mr Clegg, buoyed up by his crowd-pleasing announcement on free school meals, has not only survived his conference, but shored up his position.
Unless there's a similar popular outcry, the European Parliament and the European Union Council are likely to formally approve the proposal -- which includes a crowd-pleasing announcement about the elimination of roaming fees by 2017 -- and see the new net neutrality rules go into effect by the end of April 2016.
Then there was the pleasing Alastair Campbell announcement of the repeal of the "symbolic" section 141 of the 1983 Mental Health Act, which allows the removal from office of any MPs sectioned for six months or more.
The chief executive of Universities Australia, Belinda Robinson, said Labor's announcement was pleasing but there was "a way to go until the fate of these cuts" was finally determined.
Gov. George E. Pataki was "very pleased" by the announcement, said a spokesman, Joe Conway.
Patricia Huizing, executive director of Preservation New Jersey, a private, nonprofit organization, was pleased with the announcement.
My parents were startled and pleased by my announcement but concerned that it was too late.
