Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
bean counters
Spanish translation:
contables/contadores
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teju
May 4, 2005 19:36
19 yrs ago
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allowed bean counters to
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the yext reads as follows: The Hudson case is the first time ever that a court has allowed bean counters to override the wishes of parents. “They gave up in six months,” Wanda Hudson told the Houston Chronicle. “They made a terrible mistake.” Wanda apparently was not “cable ready,” as they say in the television world, and she failed to get Randall Terry and the radical anti-abortionists on her side. Tom DeLay never called. Could there be - perish the thought - politics at work here? Knowing that they cannot deliver on a gay-rights amendment or abortion ban, Karl Rove & Co. settled on bonding to the base with the Schiavo case.
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3 +3 | que ha permitido que los contables/contadores... | teju |
4 | permitido a los cuenta votos | Luis Zepeda |
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que ha permitido que los contables/contadores...
Bean counter is slang for accountant, or the people in charge of the money. I can't think of a slang word in Spanish. In Spain, they say "contable", in Mexico "contador".
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Note added at 24 mins (2005-05-04 20:00:31 GMT)
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My confidence level is only a 3 because I\'m not familiar with the particulars of this case, and I don\'t know who they are talking about. They may be people in charge of budgeting.
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Note added at 24 mins (2005-05-04 20:00:31 GMT)
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My confidence level is only a 3 because I\'m not familiar with the particulars of this case, and I don\'t know who they are talking about. They may be people in charge of budgeting.
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permitido a los cuenta votos
In this case the phrase refers as "Bean Counters" to those individuals who are perennially looking at the majority of their votes coming out of a certain population. Hence the phrase: "perish the thought - politics at work here?"
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