In fact, some of them are the worst offenders, since bean counting and pseudo-science often passes for historical analysis these days.

"But I was not into doing a major amount of bean counting."

The driving force is not job cuts or bean counting, the company says, but rather a sort of collective reawakening, the better to sell insurance.

"There's a difference between bean counting and philanthropy."

The SHO, which first appeared in 1988, is a triumph of engineering over bean counting.

"They go far beyond bean counting."

But bean counting presumes a crop of beans, and we're breeding precious few good growers these days.

Bean counters - shows like this inspire bean counting - will note the number of artists 40 or older.

But Tom said something about the Budgets Committee wanting to spoil this report because it is involved in bean counting.

But you're going to get folks poo-poo'ing on you for lack of scientific evidence, bean counting or over-speculation.