"Mr. Williams and I pretty much have the same operating philosophy," he said.

Leadership development occurs through an operating philosophy that is community based, personal, non-bureaucratic, and culturally sensitive.

Mr. Valliere said he originally had wanted to buy a bank that would make such lending its operating philosophy.

The operating philosophy, it would seem, is that a spoonful of spectacle helps the medicine go down.

"You're not afraid of them, but they're cool," Duntemann told me, in what might as well be the channel's operating philosophy.

Vanguard has a very simple operating philosophy: the company comes first.

Newsletters take out advertisements in the financial pages of newspapers and magazines to outline their operating philosophy.

The companies have embraced different operating philosophies over the years.

The operating philosophy of the new office was an emphasis on systemic change for a more just society rather than simply providing direct service to clients.

Indeed, the operating philosophy this off-season appears to be built around these concepts: trim, cut, hold down or just plain give away.