This business is finally looking more businesslike -- and less quixotic -- every day.
After that, there was a pause, before, in a businesslike tone, the girl resumed with Kate.
Much of this is due to Mr Hickenlooper's businesslike ways of sorting out the city's finances.
The mood was businesslike and there was plenty of competition for items of all prices.
Coreper's current chairman, Bernard Bot, is a businesslike Dutchman with a deserved reputation for efficiency.
These are questions that business needs answering in a businesslike way and so does America.
Despite this businesslike plan and a relatively cautious set of forecasts, the merger could still go wrong.
But now it has been colonised by commerce, a more businesslike approach is felt to be necessary.
For Italians, used to endless political squabbling, tortuous negotiations and fragile compromises, this businesslike approach is a revelation.
He favours a more businesslike approach, involving a more liquid market for investors to buy and sell ideas.
This commingling of personal and activity funds is not indicative of businesslike practices.
It means there are a whole host of needy causes that are unlikely to get funded by businesslike approaches.
Inaction is the enemy, and a thoroughly businesslike approach is always a solid foundation on which to move forward.
They affect a demotic and businesslike style, with much use of bullet-points and other devices for the intellectually impaired.
As he increasingly turns himself into a near-royal figurehead, it may be time for a more technocratic, businesslike president.
MS. BROWNER: As we said, it was a very focused, businesslike discussion.
These advisers will want to bring a businesslike brusqueness to tackling the territory's problems, but few have experience in government.
Taking the title of chief executive of South African Police Service on Aug. 1, 1997, Kahn set about using businesslike methods.
The English Premier League is widely regarded as admirably businesslike, yet almost all Premier League clubs will lose money this year.
Inspired by the new iPod Touch line, it adds a bright playfulness to a product that can seem businesslike and austere.
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An administration official said Gore had spoken twice with Primakov on Tuesday, and described the tone of the conversations as businesslike.
Relations between Mr Sarkozy and Mr Brown are businesslike rather than warm.
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The snakeheads are probably the most ruthless and businesslike of the people-smugglers.
The stock exchange authorities hope that privatisation will inject fresh ways of thinking and make the exchange more businesslike and less bureaucratic.
Realistic, businesslike and, according to friends, with a bit of a Scottish streak, Mr MacCready knew that most of his inventions were impractical.
Amid the bailout bonanza Kirin's decision to pursue its rival in what will be the biggest drinks industry shakeup in decades is refreshingly businesslike.
That has big attractions for businesslike philanthropists such as Mr Page.
The businesslike solution to America's finances is not revenue-neutral tax reform.
Most landlord-tenant relationships are friendly, cooperative or at least businesslike.
Mr Clinton has not reinvented philanthropy, as some claim, but he does espouse a businesslike approach to giving money that is now fashionable among the new rich.
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