There was actionable advice I could wring from that stinging remark.
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They are able to wring water from an otherwise stingy sky by trapping it in nets.
They, too, seem to see a chance to spoil the peace process or wring concessions from the government.
It is what enables him or her to wring meaning from facts and observations, and then be free of them.
Cost-cutter that he is, Daly still bristles at the suggestion that there's nothing for him to do but wring efficiencies from a wasteful old organization.
But as Web sites come up with more ways to wring profit from online advertising and sales--often using methods that Google opposes--a better analogy might be the Web's watchdog.
And unlike Primedia, say, which owns 86 specialty publications and can wield its size to reduce printing costs and wring efficiencies from cross-selling, Vulcan is often in danger of running on empty.
If paying premiums is a nuisance, attempting to wring money from a ruined insurer is far worse as anyone who put their savings into Equitable Life, a flailing British life insurer, can attest.
Insiders in those talks murmur about them becoming a "university seminar", with the industry trying to wring concessions from Mr Letwin as a delaying tactic until the phone hacking hue and cry has died down.
In the last two years Novich, 62, has coaxed a vast majority of his patients into scheduling visits, refilling prescriptions and asking simple questions over the Web--all part of a decadelong effort to wring efficiencies from his practice in order to see fewer patients, offer better service and, yes, have more fun.
Naturally, Sina and Alibaba reckon that they can wring much more from their combined efforts.
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It also gave him a chance to wring more profits from a weary chain.
The underlying business model is not simply to wring more money from any one brand.
The company is continuing to bet it can wring profit growth from an aging stable of drugs.
It's an obvious ploy to wring more dollars from movie lovers and cuts into video store margins in the process.
Intel has failed to wring consistent profits from its flash memory business, which last year accounted for 6% of its sales.
Local governments in dry areas across China -- as in other countries -- have long sought to wring more rain from the sky for crops and reservoirs.
First they consolidate hardware and wring more efficiencies from it.
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Using smarter technologies, more brains and less money to wring more work from less delivered energy--what energy experts call "end-use efficiency"--is the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest, fastest, most diverse, least visible, least understood and most neglected way to provide energy services.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham also said he would continue to use the confirmation vote as leverage in his effort to wring more information from the White House about the response to the 11 September attack on a US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Thanks to advances in software, a new generation of startups like Columbia Power are cheaply and quickly testing hundreds of new designs in virtual oceans while veterans of the industry are perfecting their technology to wring more energy from waves and lower the cost of electricity.
Nevertheless, the group has managed to wring some useful information from its handful of observations.
As for EBITDA, managers say that after nearly five years of belt-tightening, issuers are hard-pressed to wring further cost savings from operations.
Technology and the shifting patterns of global industrialization have helped the world and its largest oil consumer, the U.S., wring more economic growth from each barrel of oil consumed.
The current systems wring too little parking revenue from city-dwellers and maximize their frustration.
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Fourth-quarter earnings season has shown most companies are still laser-focused on whittling down costs to wring every ounce of profit from sluggish, or nonexistent, revenue growth.
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They were irked further by reports that Bill Clinton had told Mr Blair that he would not help wring concessions on police reform from republicans, who are also dissatisfied with the government's proposals.
Currently, manufacturing wages are hovering around their 2000 level and as The Wall Street Journal notes, high unemployment and rising global competition means that employers are able to wring wage and benefit concessions from unions and employees in order to avoid outright job cuts, making the sector as a whole less attractive to potential hirees.
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But many families can wring even more tax savings from a 529 by investing it all along in taxable bonds--whose interest would otherwise be taxed at a federal rate of up to 40% (including the effect of an itemized deduction clawback)--and holding index funds or individual stocks in their taxable accounts, says Yale School of Management professor Matthew Spiegel.
Keep in mind that Yakushima is a place of extremes: the mountains wring every last drop of moisture from the passing clouds and the interior of the island is one of the wettest places in Japan.
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