to right-size

[Jonathan Lighter]

This is the whole thread. My rhetorical "no" was pre-emptive, not
contradictory.

JL

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Martin Kaminer <martin.kaminer at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Didn't follow the whole thread but I believe you'll find its recent
> use stems in part from management mumbo-jumbo as a euphemism for
> 'downsize'.  I recall vividly a friend who worked on this ostensibly
> management-jargon-busting book
> http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Hype-Robert-G-Eccles/dp/087584331X who
> experienced profound dismay a few years later upon hearing one of the
> authors (now Dean of HBS) use the neologism 'smartsize'.
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> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > No, it means  'to estimate or measure correctly':
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> > CNN today: "They're not right-sizing the Iranian threat."
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> > JL
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