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Subject:RE: What Pet Peeve makes you puke? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:58:40 -0400
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> Subject: Re: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?
>
> Do you have a problem with the phrase "business growth"?
>
> > How about "grow your business" or "grow your profit"?
> > Their (!) just disgusting. These flower in the poisoned
> > soil of the business world.
>
> "Their" just disgusting?
>
He was parodying, wasn't he (the "(!)" told me that.
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