It was wonderfully deft in its controlled daring: a lieutenant colonel baiting a rear admiral in public was a scary tightrope act, even in a community as notably hostile to Navy brass as the Marines.
He rejected as "brass neck" the executives' rejection of the report, in which they blamed the government for Rover's failure.
By using friendly but authoritative online reps who identify themselves as company brass, these marketers hope to make a sale--or at least a sales pitch.
Most telling, he says, is that a high-end Midtown spot such as Lexington Brass, a creation of the EMM Group, chose to get kombucha on tap.
As strong as it was, as close, it was as if sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, across that ditch.
"I wish you success, " he told the French as a Malian brass band, their instruments poorly tuned, worked their way through a marching chorale.
In the materials group, Reliance Steel, one of the largest U.S. metals service centers, distributes a line of more than 100, 000 metal products, including carbon, alloy, stainless and specialty steel, aluminum, brass as well as copper products.
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And if it does, this will vindicate Packers brass such as GM Ted Thompson and Coach Mike McCarthy for sticking to their guns and insisting upon a change in direction at the start of the 2009 season in order to give young Rodgers a chance to perform and grow into the QB he has become.
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Copper can also be mixed with other metals to make valuable alloys such as bronze, pewter and brass.
Exactly what that copper content is is debatable: various sites give brass or bronze as the alloy and with different copper contents.
Her move leaves the Brighouse and Rastrick band as the only major UK brass band without a single woman in its ranks.
Provenance and rarity also explain Sotheby's high estimates for the ten scientific instruments in the sale, such as a 21-inch brass telescope made circa 1800 by Jesse Ramsden , instrument-maker to King George III.
Many big organisations are starting to limit the number of boards that their top brass can sit on as non-executives.
"Immersive reading technologies will provide a future tablet PC with the ability to be a good read as well as a good write, " Brass said.
At the stadium, the crowd also made as much noise as they could, led by brass bands and organised fan groups with set cheering routines.
According to Brass, concepts such as the paperless office never took off because the industry has always focused on the creation of, but not the consuming of, information.
While the military brass interpret this simply as not being in the lead in fighting, the politicians go a little further, suggesting Nato will only play a "support" role.
The US, Britain and the EU now all make pennies and cents out of steel with a copper plating as copper rose in price making brass and bronze worth more than face value.
Wednesday through Monday I stayed at the Hyatt Regency which became a center point of activity starting Thursday afternoon and extending through Monday as regular fans along with NFL brass and corporate staffers began arriving at the hotel.
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Spitzer's charges paint a startling picture of Marsh brass nonchalantly ripping off clients as if it were business as usual.
He'd get off the train at the city dumps, eat mulligan stew with the hoboes and forage for copper, brass and iron to sell as scrap.
In Milan, Gabriella Crespi experimented with architectural, unadorned shapes such as her Z desk, a zigzag of brass-sheathed wood.
Regulators should focus on function: if an outfit behaves like a bank, it should be regulated as one, whatever it says on the brass plate.
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Rather than judge the Leno experiment based purely on ratings as TV programming has historically been measured, NBC brass has said it's focused on its margins.
By contrast, the top brass at banks that fared better, such as JPMorgan Chase, encouraged managers to flag up potential problems and eyed highly profitable units suspiciously.
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For centuries, the wizardry of watchmaking was to take brass, steel, and the jewels used as bearings for the gears, and turn them into tiny works of art that also seemed to take the pulse of the cosmos itself.
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Top brass in Brussels, or Paris, can talk as much as they like.
Which makes no sense at all as a monkey is, in archaic naval parlance, a brass triangle which iron cannon balls are piled up inside of.
The rise and rise of steampunk - the retro-futuristic style - and its love for copper, brass, gears and automata has helped his prospects as have movies such as Hugo.
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