"Caning" is a word in ENGLISH
of Cane
My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cordial and friendly and we had loved the big studio with the great paintings. I t was like one of the best rooms in the finest museum except there was a big fireplace and it was warm and comfortable and they gave you good things to eat and tea and natural distilled liqueurs made from purple plums, yellow plums or wild raspberries.Miss Stein was very big but not tall and was heavily built like a peasant woman. She had beautiful eyes and a strong German-Jewish face that also could have been Friulano and she reminded me of a northern I talian peasant woman with her clothes, her mobile face and her lovely, thick, alive immigrant hair which she wore put up in the same way she had probably worn it in college. She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places.Her companion had a very pleasant voice, was small, very dark, with her hair cut like Joan of Arc in the Boutet de Monvel illustrations and had a very hooked nose. She was working on a piece of needlepoint when we first met them and she worked on this and saw to the food and drink and talked to my wife. She made one conversation and listened to two and often interrupted the one she was not making. Afterwards she explained to me that she always talked to the wives. The wives, my wife and I felt, were tolerated. But we liked Miss Stein and her friend, although the friend was frightening. The paintings and the cakes and the eau-de-vie were truly wonderful. They seemed to like us too and treated us as though we were very good, well-mannered and promising children and I felt that they forgave us for being in love and being married - time would fix that - and when my wife invited them to tea, they accepted.
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An American automobile company and a Japanese auto company decided to have a competitive boat race on the Detroit River. Both teams practiced hard and long to reach their peak performance. On the big day, they were as ready as they could be.The Japanese team won by a mile.Afterwards, the American team became discouraged by the loss and their morale sagged. Corporate management decided that the reason for the crushing defeat had to be found. A Continuous Measurable Improvement Team of "Executives" was set up to investigate the problem and to recommend appropriate corrective action.Their conclusion: The problem was that the Japanese team had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, whereas the American team had 1 person rowing and 8 people steering. The American Corporate Steering Committee immediately hired a consulting firm to do a study on the management structure.After some t ime and billions of dollars, the consulting firm concluded that "too many people were steering and not enough rowing." To prevent losing to the Japanese again next year, the management structure was changed to "4 Steering Managers, 3 Area Steering Managers, and 1 Staff Steering Manager" and a new performance system for the person rowing the boat to give more incentive to work harder and become a six sigma performer. "We must give him empowerment and enrichment." That ought to do it.The next year the Japanese team won by two miles.The American Corporation laid off the rower for poor performance, sold all of the paddles, cancelled all capital investments for new equipment, halted development of a new canoe, awarded high performance awards to the consulting firm, and distributed the money saved as bonuses to the senior executives.
álmon - A kind of tree and its commercial timber; a kind of sugar-cane.
Read the complete definitionA carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.
Read the complete definitionarníbal - (Sp. almibar) Thin, freely-flowing molasses in the initial stage of the process of sugar-milling. 1.) inutús—the watery juice …
Read the complete definitionOne of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a …
Read the complete definitionOne of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize.
Read the complete definitionProducing reeds or canes.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.
Read the complete definitionAn apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer …
Read the complete definitionasúkar - (Sp. azucar) Sugar; to make sugar including all the operations in the final stage of the process of …
Read the complete definitionv. /MANG-:-EN/ to lie by the side of. Isu ti nangatag iti ubing. It was he who lay by the …
Read the complete definitionbagási, bagásu n bagasse, dried pulp of the sugar cane. bagasíru n employee in a sugar mill who gathers the …
Read the complete definitionbagáso - (Sp. bagazo) Fruit-peel pressed dry, especially sugar-cane crushed and deprived of its juice, bagasse. (cf. siápò).
Read the complete definitionSugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to …
Read the complete definitionbagun n {1} wheelbarrow. {2} railroad freight car. Tulu ka bagung tubu, Three freight cars full of sugar cane. v …
Read the complete definitionbáhì n {1} the hard portion of a palm trunk. {2} cane or club made of a palm trunk.
Read the complete definitionbáknot - To strike, beat, thrash, cudgel, drub, trounce, flog, castigate, cane, give one the stick. (cf. bákol, hánot, lámpus, …
Read the complete definitionbákol - (B) To cudgel, cane, thrash, beat, trounce, whip, flog, strike with a rod, whip or the like. Bakóla …
Read the complete definitionbalakól - Stick, cane, rod, cudgel, club. (cf. bákol, balálbal, bulunál).
Read the complete definitionbalálbal - (H) Cane, stick, rod, cudgel, (cf. bálbal, barálbal).
Read the complete definitionTo support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end …
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