"For the bean counter, the underlying anxiety for them is an intense need for control," Foster says.
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Alphabet is giving Campbell a $475,000 salary plus a $250,000 signing bonus to be the company's chief bean counter.
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Sorrento is an autocratic bean counter, a would-be master of the universe who doesn't even like video games.
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And he would've been even angrier than I am now that some bean counter has deemed FilmStruck an expendable corporate asset.
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That night, the regulars included a self-described "bean counter" from the Federal Reserve and a hospital worker who lives in Harlem.
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The Bean Counter comes in two types: the hermit, who holes up with his obsessions, and the hostile, who inflicts them on others.
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A young Karl Lagerfeld strikes a seductive pose in front of a row of potatoes in Anthea Hamilton's "Karl Lagerfeld Bean Counter" (2012).
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Harry is the elder, more conscientious bean counter, conscious of the old country, honest and devout, the self-appointed guardian of family morals.
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When McGregor stormed the cage, some dastardly egg-head bean-counter from the commission tried to push the one-time Moneybelt challenger out by his leg.
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"The Government Accountability Office — if you will, the chief bean counter — is basically telling us that this is costing us a lot of money," Ms. Cantwell said.
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As Lawson spoke about UConn's last push for N.C.A.A. tournament perfection, she said, "I'm not a bean counter," but two more victories, and "Stewie's got all the beans."
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"All I remember is that my dad, who was the company bean counter, considered the football team a waste of money," Hay, 91, said in his living room in an Akron suburb in November.
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Sir Martin was often viewed as a miserly bean counter by the so-called creatives at WPP, Weinstein was foul-mouthed and prone to bullying, while no one has ever seriously suggested that Wynn gained success through charm.
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During her speech at the Democratic National Convention, Clinton leaned into her nature as a workhorse, not a showboat; she was going for authenticity, but that particular boast also smacked of the dreaded role of bean-counter assigned to too many women who are seen as invisible executors, not visionaries.
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As President Donald Trump heads to New York for his first United Nations General Assembly, the weeklong gathering is being viewed as the most public test yet for the shrunken diplomat at Foggy Bottom — an opportunity for Tillerson to reassert himself by the president's side as something more than a bean-counter or risk being overshadowed by Haley on the most high-profile stage to date.
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Andreasen went public with her concerns on 1 August 2002.Becky Barrow: "I'm not a politician — just a bean-counter, says Andreasen". The Daily Telegraph. 2 August 2002.
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From January to December 2001, O'Keefe served as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget in the George W. Bush administration, a job that strengthened his reputation as a "bean counter".
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Cry For Help features two protagonists, one of them being James Paul McCormack who is featured in Borders of Morality. In one of the last chapters of Cry For Help the other protagonist, a retired NYPD detective Caleb Alden is sitting in a coffee shop called The Bean Counter. He is waited on by a girl described as having emerald green eyes behind a pair of wire rimmed glasses. The Bean Counter is where Sandra Small, from the Matthew Livingston series, works.
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Azukihakari (小豆はかり, "the bean counter") is a Japanese monster in the Ghost Story Collection of the Edo Period, "Kaidan Old Staff". There is a theory that it is similar to the poltergeist phenomenon because it is a monster that makes the sound of red beans in a house without appearing, and it is a monster with only sound.
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Linux Cooper: Paradox Software Corp's Top Bean Counter or CFO who's dedicated to reducing payroll while increasing his annual bonus. Joined the company as an independent financial analyst and gnawed his way in. A CPA (Compulsive Puzzle Addict), he holds a master's degree in the history of tavern puzzles. The Securities and Exchange Commission has investigated him since he owned a pawnshop as a teen in Phoenix, Arizona.
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There is an old French saying in Vendee: "counting his mojettes", meaning to know how to count his money. It is quite amazing that in the English-speaking world, the words "bean counter" refers to a non-zealous official making additions. An old English expression says "he knows how many beans make five", which means: "He knows his stuff". The original purpose of the Mojette Transform was to create a discrete tool to divide the Fourier plane into angular and radial sectors.
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Cowan played Herbert Wilson, a by-the-book "bean counter" who decried Brennan's questionable expenditure of company resources. Williams starred as young executive Pat Burns. George Lindsey, later with The Andy Griffith Show, appeared in a few episodes of The Tycoon as Tom Keane."The Tycoon" (1964) – Full cast and crew Van Williams had earlier appeared as Ken Madison in two ABC detective series Bourbon Street Beat with Richard Long and Andrew Duggan and in Surfside 6 with Troy Donahue and Lee Patterson.
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He enters people's lives when they seek him out, but never makes any effort to keep anyone's soul, much less trick or bargain for any followers. Nor is he in any kind of eternal war with God. He was a bookkeeper for God, but found his job superfluous since God is omnipotent and all-seeing. Rather than talking to God about this, he became a rogue bean counter and swore neither to serve God nor to keep track of anything for the rest of eternity.
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Through meticulous A&R;, Warner/Reprise continued to be recognized for the quality of their roster, and with aggressive marketing, the company remained a dominant force in the market during Waronker's tenure. In 1992, following the death of Time Warner Chairman Steve Ross, the Chairman of Warner Music Group, Robert J. Morgado, reorganized the corporate management structure. Under Ross, the Warner Music Groups were autonomous; Morgado, described as "a bean counter with little knowledge of music," required that the label heads report to him. Ostin declined to renew his contract as Chairman of Warner/Reprise, and resigned his position in August 1994.
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Judge Maitland is a judge working for Accounts. She first appeared in "The Bean Counter" (prog 1790), the first strip after Day of Chaos, where she had a 'meeting' with Dredd in the middle of a riot because he would not come to her office. A highly lethal combatant, in mid- battle she berated Dredd for his contempt towards divisions like Accounts and his lack of paperwork, pointing out the necessity of "bean counters" like her to keep Justice Department functioning. In "The Cold Deck," she reported to Chief Judge Hershey about the city's crippled finances and advised nationalising the banks that had collapsed, then reclaiming their capital retroactively.
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The two then parted ways for a time, with Garriott forming a new company, Portalarium, and Long moving his family to Los Angeles, where he was hired by The Walt Disney Company as an executive producer. During the next four years, Long oversaw the creation of several social games and mobile apps for Disney and its subdivision Disney Interactive, such as the Disney Connected Learning Platform, the Disney Parent App for Facebook, several educational mini-games and a mobile version for Club Penguin, and several educational games for iPhones and iPads. Educators collaborating on the projects included Stanford University's Roy Pea and professors from the University of Georgia such as John Olive and Linda Labbo. Some games created were original concepts such as Pufflescape, Jelly Bean Counter, and Bits & Bolts, while others leveraged existing Disney properties, such as Cinderella Shapes & Patterns, Toy Story Letters & Letter Sounds, Fairies Art Studio, Ariel Numbers and Counting, Cars Numbers and Counting, and Disney Fairies Fashion Boutique.
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