The script, by Aaron Sorkin, wastes no time setting him up with a nice girl (Annette Bening), who is lobbying him for tougher environmental laws.
When you buy software from Oracle, he says, you expect to have to spend some time setting it up and customising it before you can start using it.
Stanway points out that Wal-Mart has no experience running call centers, and says that Home Depot (nyse: HD - news - people ) would likely have an easier time setting up such a business.
Is the United States sufficiently internationalist in outlook to be ready for a global regime of the world economy in which we're not guaranteed to be Mr. Big at the table all the time setting the rules?
Piaget, also, offers a variety: it has set numerous world records for sheer thinness while at the same time setting precedents for its relatively lightweight tourbillions, which generally tend to be the heaviest and largest wristwatches on the market.
Lastly, after the anxiety over Greek elections subside, and the realities of low interest rates for a very long time setting in with investors, I think there will be a significant outflow from bonds, bond funds and money market funds into commodities and stocks.
One leading fund manager said to me that he feared that if the threshold for success was 75%, as some have suggested, company chairs would have to spend all their time working through the minutiae of company pay policy with shareholders, and too little time setting the wealth-creating strategy of their companies.
And the president has learned to buy time by setting them against one another.
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On Sunday, October 25, most Americans return to standard time by setting their clocks back one hour.
Thursday, a Soyuz capsule docked with the orbiting laboratory after less than six hours of flight time, setting a record.
Her tips go beyond the standard meeting advice about starting and ending on time, setting an agenda and sticking to it.
At the same time as setting his own candidate on a winning course, Mr Rove led a team analysing the weakness of Mr Bush's opponents.
She said that particular piece of legislation had been ahead of its time, setting up a network of dog wardens and introducing fixed penalty fines for owners.
Every country will have at least one female athlete after Saudi Arabia included two women in its team for the first time, setting an important precedent for women's rights in the kingdom.
He said he drafted a policy document in 2004 on part-time working setting out minimum hours that entry pilots, like Ms Starmer, must complete before they could reduce their flying times to less than 75% of full-time hours.
In addition, there's also a Time Adjustment setting for, well, automatically modifying the clock depending on where you are, as well as a Phone Finder that easily locates your iPhone, iPod or iPad with the simple touch of a button.
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As the title implies, this is not an easy time to be setting out to build a nest egg.
Just today, the Court of Appeals filed a Time Schedule Order setting initial dates for the filing of briefs.
The really good ones are able to spend most of their time and energy setting the course and leading the team to prosperity.
He said that Google was hiding behind the European directive in setting time limits on how long it should hold on to the data.
This is roughly half of my time and includes setting the course, aligning 8, 000 employees around a vision and working to accelerate our progress.
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Nor is there a reference to the minimum wage under the scheme allowing it to be wrecked at any time by the setting of an arbitrarily low rate.
Analysts typically exclude one-time items when setting forecasts.
Within the context of work, that might mean working at the same time, batching tasks, setting your environment so you know where things are, and working at the same time every day.
Setting the time is apparently too tricky for most people to say nothing of actually recording something.
He seized first place from Toyota's Jarno Trulli at the third time of asking, setting a benchmark of 1:12.353.
Setting the time and your wake-up alarm has never been easier thanks to Halo 3's auto-sync time and alarms feature.
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Setting aside time to goof off at work can relieve stress, improve morale and even help with team building efforts.
"The criminals took advantage of the time when people were setting off fireworks to disguise the sound of their guns, " a police statement said.
Setting aside time to do nothing can actually require discipline.
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