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• Note and initial: Let's spread the responsibility of this.
  -- Kelvin Throop III, The Management Dictionary...
• Under consideration: We never heard of it. -- Kelvin Throop III, The Management Dictionary
• A survey is being made of this": We need more time to think of an answer.
  -- Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary...
• Conference: A place where conversation is substituted for the dreariness of work and the loneliness of thought.
  -- Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary...
• STATUS QUO is Latin for "the mess we're in.
  [the situation in which [we are]] -- Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary...
• Under active consideration: We're searching the files for it.
  -- Kelvin Throop III, The Management Dictionary...
• Zero defects: The result of shutting down a production line.
  -- Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary...
• Unfair competition: Selling cheaper than we do. -- Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary
• PROGRAM: Any task that can't be completed in one telephone call or one day.
  Once a task is defined as a program ("training program," "sales program," or "marketing program"), its implementation always justifies hiring at least three more people....