She forms a link between him and the fashion industry, although her client has his own fashion contacts and judgment, and uses the fashion term "piece" to describe an expensive item of clothing.
Even before the Omand report, however, the JTAC was increasingly producing longer-term pieces.
"Because we won't have the need to generate page views for revenue, we can really focus on long-term pieces and not the news at all," Altman explains.
In an interview last week, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the joint training exercise with South Korea planned just off the country's coast in the next few weeks represented only the "near-term piece" of a larger strategy to prevent a recurrence of the kind of shock the South experienced as it watched one of its ships sunk without warning.
If you count in terms of pieces, rather than weight, more than 90% of ivory items sold in China was illegal.
You will be told what you need to do in terms of pieces of work and their result, but not how you get there.
But think of them in terms of pieces instead of stickers.
I attended the Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair in London last September and discovered some rather unusual objects that gave the term "conversation piece" a whole new meaning.
As long as it's recognised as an umbrella term, a piece of shorthand, there doesn't seem to be too much to worry about.
In some of his early artworks (termed "influence pieces"), Puusemp would manipulate subjects into unknowingly executing his ideas while believing that they, the subjects, had come up with said ideas on their own.
If someone's looking to try and do that, one common tip is think of the Rubik's Cube in terms of pieces, instead of stickers … if I had [a Rubik's Cube lying around] you'd easily understand what I mean.
