EDITORIAL WHERE ARE THE MONKEYS? MAYOR'S ASIA TRIP ``DELIVERABLES'' ARE AS VAGUE AS THE WORD ITSELF.WHEN Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. was asked to explain why his two-week trip to Asia was anything more than just a junket for himself and an entourage The e-mail program included in the Macintosh version of Microsoft Office. Combining the functions of Outlook with scheduling capabilities, Entourage was introduced with Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac, the first release of Office for OS X. of city officials and notables, he said he would be bringing back ``deliverables.'' Seemed like a bold statement at the time, until one considered the actual definition of the word. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, a deliverable is ``something that can be done,'' especially ``something that is a realistic expectation.'' Not quite like actually delivering something tangible or achieving a real goal. It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have just setting out the hope for a future achievement. At the time, it seemed an unintentional and common misuse of the word. But after hearing Villaraigosa's outline on Monday of the things the $500,000 tour accomplished, maybe the term was more accurate than not. Finalizing deals that were already in the works and having various discussions with foreign officials seem fairly intangible, as the definition suggests. Angelenos must hope Villaraigosa's ``deliverables'' are more realistic expectations than his predecessors' turned out to be. Former Mayor James Hahn's main deliverables from his Asia trip four years ago were a pair of golden monkeys This list includes individual non-human primates (capuchin monkeys, squirrel monkeys, Rhesus Macaques, and marmosets) who are in some way famous or notable. Note: This list does not include fictional monkeys, nor Apes, which are not monkeys. . They still haven't been delivered. |
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