management

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:management: /n./ 1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also suit). Spoken derisively, as in "*Management* decided that ...". 2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the worlds minor irritations. Hackers satirical public notices are often signed The Mgt; this derives from the "Illuminatus" novels (see the Bibliography in Appendix C).
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