That can be a nice way to show appreciation without looking like a suck-up.
Some of his co-workers accuse Bayne of being a management "suck-up, " and he was physically threatened recently.
The fact that America's bestseller lists feature works written by academic authorities amongst the ghost-written memoirs and celebrity suck-up jobs should be cause for rejoicing.
Another dilemma: Should I defend my original column (" Fat, florid, farcical") or the imaginary Microsoft suck-up job that Dvorak thinks I wrote and somewhat justifiably tees off on?
He is not universally liked, though: behind his back, many of his fellow politicians call him Cicciobello (nice little fatty) or Piacione (a suck-up), for his apparent desire to please everyone.
S. honcho Michael McKean and his suck-up underling (the hilariously fey David Spade), the supercompetent Coneheads assume the coloration of the suburban American middle class and turn illegal-alien stereotypes on their pointy heads.
Do two companies really deserve to suck up nearly one-quarter of the entire tech coverage pumped out by the media?
While Google's highest profile deals--its acquisitions of YouTube and dMarc--were related to advertising and online content, Schmidt continues to steadily suck up companies related to two lesser-known obsessions: Microsoft and mobile communications.
While Google's highest profile deals--its acquisitions of YouTube and dMarc--were related to advertising and online content, Schmidt continues to steadily suck up companies related to two lesser-known obsessions: Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and mobile communications.
Since the device focuses solely on mobile messaging--e-mail and texting--it won't suck up Haiti's limited bandwidth.
He also co-authored the best-seller Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up with Carville, as well as Take it Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future.
It was like watching a bad sci-fi movie in which aliens suck up the brains of earthlings.
Slick new machines--meant to appeal to consumers who buy computers by poking and prodding showroom models--have helped the tech giant suck up market share over the past year.
Teachers should spend less time handling mundane administrative tasks that suck up time and less time delivering one-size-fits-none lesson plans.
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Sometimes private-equity firms do little more than suck up money like a vacuum cleaner and leave someone else holding a big, ol' dusty bag full of debt.
Orphan or under-utilized servers do little useful work and suck up power.
Get Creative, but Keep Your Stress Level In-Check: The holidays are demanding enough as it is, and coming up with a new pie-in-the-sky mobile app or daily-deal promotion at the last minute might suck up hours of your time that could be better spent with your customers.
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Once traffic is restored--it could take six months or more to get back up to prestorm levels--the long-term fix for New Orleans lies in the ancient coastal wetlands that suck up the rain and storm surges that periodically imperil the city.
Like power plants, data centers, with their acres of servers, suck up millions of gallons of water a year for cooling (as an alternative to using electricity-hogging mechanical chillers).
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