Once in a while we rued this policy of not getting rid of incompetent employees quickly and directly, but generally the sense of job security for everyone was worth the occasional deadwood.
"If we don't deal with it, we will rue the day we didn't," he said.
"We had some good attacking opportunities but we didn't have the luck or the quality that you need and we'll rue that because we haven't scored and that's cost us".
"I told Wright in 1996," Jack Welch remembers, " 'We'll rue the day we let Roger and Rupert team up.' " MSNBC hurried to create a news channel that they said would harness technology and "revolutionize" news coverage.
If any one of these red lines, let alone all of them together, get crossed, we will rue the day that we did not use these last five years to make our own economy more resilient.
Obviously six or seven would have been a lot better and we missed a couple of half chances that we'll rue.
And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the days when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.
"The day we begin to abrogate the Constitution simply for security is a day we will rue," said Mr. Menendez, one of 10 New Jersey legislators in Congress (there are a total of 15) who placed their names on a bill that sought to outlaw racial profiling.
