eans extremely big, but it’s rarely used as an adverb, as it is here. A "prank" is a playful but foolish joke or trick, often done by kids. It was unconscionable. A powerful word meaning extreme, excessive, or perhaps immoral. You and I go back 20 years, Ed. Two people who "go back" 20 years have known each other that long. I took this job with your personal assurance that you’d back my autonomy against any encroachment. A "personal assurance" is a guarantee or promise. "Autonomy" is an educated word for independence, and "encroachment" is another word for interference. Hackett is nothing but a hatchet man for CCA. A "hatchet" is a small ax or chopping knife, and a "hatchet man" is the person in a company that does all the dirty work, such as firing people. I too thought....that the reorganization of the news division would not be executed....until everyone had been consulted and satisfied. If a plan is "executed" it is actually carried out and completed. "To consult" with a person is to discuss something with them. You sulked off like a child and engaged this network in a shocking and disgraceful episode. "To sulk" is to be angry, often at something that isn’t that important, and thus "to sulk off" is to leave like an angry and silly child. "To engage" a company in something is to get it involved, and a "disgraceful episode" is a shameful or humiliating incident or event. Your position is no longer tenable, regardless of how management is restructured. If a person’s position is no longer "tenable," they will not be able to keep it, and in fact, this is Ruddy’s way of telling Max that he is fired. We will coordinate our statements…to the least detriment of everyone. To "coordinate" statements is to organize them so that they work or fit together well. "Detriment" is another word for harm or damage. I’ve been sitting behind that desk….the dispassionate pundit reporting with seeming detachment...the daily parade of lunacies that constitute the news. A "dispassionate" person is neutral or unemotional, and a "pundit" is an informed or educated observer. To do something with "detachment" is to do it without emotion. A "lunacy" is something that is crazy and "to constitute" the news is to make up the parts of it. Knock it off, Arthur! "Knock it off" is a great expression that simply means "stop it!" Have the overnight ratings come in? The scores that tell TV programmers how many people were estimated to have watched their shows the previous day. It is irresistibly titled "The New Lawyers." If something is "irresistible," it is too cute or adorable to resist. The running characters are a crusty but benign ex-Supreme Court Justice. "Crusty" is a good word for a person who is often in a bad mood, while "benign" means harmless. A "Justice" is a judge on t
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