Payroll, taxes, inventory, employee training--companies these days can hand all those detail-heavy, soul-deadening support chores over to someone else.
Maybe -- if we're being picky -- this is all too self-consciously clever to be truly scary on the visceral, soul-gnawing level of the most unforgettable horror films.
In settings ranging from pulsating dance clubs to fateful evening encounters to soul-searching internal monologues, he continues to explore these persistent themes in sleek, polished songs on his new album, Olympia.
MS. PSAKI: -- you probably saw this or you may have been en route -- he did talk about the need to do some soul-searching, because of the frequency of the type of events, tragic events, that happened this past weekend and in Colorado.
Indeed, some envision a boom in entrepreneurship as would-be business owners quit their soul-crushing corporate jobs to go to work for themselves.
Many political observers believed Mr. Obama's re-election, combined with Republican soul-searching over new ways to connect with voters and the public horror over the Newtown shootings, had created a receptive atmosphere for new gun laws that likely won't be replicated soon.
You know, Debbie, women in particular, African-American women at this conference seem to be doing a lot of soul-searching.
There's something so Knicks-like about this predicament, how these losses to the Pacers are not just losses, but come accompanied by a dramatic real-time locker-room soul-search, with hurt feelings and disagreements over what and whom to blame.
This seven-gallery museum covers rock 'n' roll and soul, from rural roots to modern-day hit makers.
Some people come to classical music for a good soul-soothing, while others come to it for its ability to surprise and delight.
It is that common American identity -- which Barack Obama exemplifies, heart and soul -- that enables us as Americans to speak with moral authority to all of the peoples of the world to inspire hope that we as human beings can transcend our limitations to redeem the promise of human freedom.
That the shipwrecked hero, a young Indian boy named Piscine Molitor Patel -- "Pi" for short -- didn't have another human soul to talk to for 200 days presented another significant challenge.
Still, Republicans are starting to get their sea legs after spending months of serious soul-searching and having to watch the likes of Palin, Steele and conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh dominate the news cycle -- for all the wrong reasons.
The shock led to soul-searching by a once-confident Japan which, with its economy broken, seemed adrift.
He also performed frequently, exposing a new generation of artists to his soul-wrenching roots approach.
But the court hearings, expected to last over two months, are certain to give rise to more soul-searching.
The Germans are aware of this and it is leading to soul-searching.
November's poor showing among Latinos has led to a soul-searching for the GOP, which hopes to make gains among the growing voting bloc in coming years.
In the mid-1970s, the band -- minus Jermaine, who'd married Gordy's daughter Hazel -- moved to Epic Records, where they were produced by the Philadelphia soul-funk team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.
OK. So the father, the middle-generation guy, in your story sells his soul to the devil in return for becoming a successful painter - as opposed to a painter who paints a lot but doesn't sell anything.
With his background in consulting and finance--all brains and no soul, apparently--Gerstner looked like a bad bet to stick around for long.
Like many other purpose-built administrative capitals - Brazil's Brasilia, Burma's Naypyidaw, Pakistan's Islamabad - its high-design layout hasn't managed to capture the heart and soul of the country it rules.
With 40% of its employees working away from the office every day, IBM has been alarmed enough to do some soul-searching.
For England, the defeat will lead to plenty of soul-searching as they look back on another disappointing bowling and fielding display.
"It's our national heritage that they're destroying and obviously for us as insurers it's soul-destroying to see this kind of destruction, " she said.
Now is the time for other automakers to do some soul-searching.
It seems to have prompted soul-searching at other institutions, too.
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But coming at the same time as a Eurobarometer poll showing that 59% of Europeans see Israel as a threat to world peace, the affair has led to some broader soul-searching.
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She used the opportunity to plug her Gucci getup and an upcoming cookbook, tentatively titled Let's Dine. (The book will feature a mishmash of ethnic genres, from Spanish to soul food--no milkshakes).
Rebel yeller Phillip Phillips threw Tommy Hilfiger's recommendation to wear any color but gray out the window (into a gray and soul-deadening sky) and proceeded to wear two shades of gray for his cover of "Movin' Out" -- because to not wear gray would compromise Phillip Phillips' integrity.
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