seat-of-the-pants

Aston Martin's new Vantage model is priced at PS120,000 and is a seat-of-the-pants sports car

This feat may prove hard for Bernanke to duplicate in the coming years, as some dissent is to be expected in what is essentially a seat-of-the-pants operation.

Keep their booties shaking with DJ Dan's Lift (Thrive): It's a consistently thrilling seat-of-the-pants two-CD set of dark, funky house and techno, programmed by this perennial people's favorite--and gay--club music groundbreaker.

Seat-of-the-pants driving has taken on a new twist thanks to Nissan, which is offering free two-tone leather trim with heated front seats to all customers who buy a Micra SX before the end of the year.

From the bitter Arctic to the scalding red centre of Australia, via countless seat-of-the-pants circumnavigations, there's lots of history and anecdote to fascinate on these pages.

The average time to get comfortable in flying the aircraft is 700 to 800 hours in order to develop the proper seat-of-the-pants feel."

"Logging in the Southwest has gone from a thriving, deadly industry to a small-scale, seat-of-the-pants operation," Suckling says.

According to Audley, the administration's seat-of-the-pants experience performing environmental reviews during the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992-1993, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1994, and an initiative for accelerated tariff liberalization in the forest products sector in 1999 highlighted a need for a formal, structured approach to assessing environmental risks from trade.

He couldn't keep it up forever--the urgent tone, the seat-of-the-pants feel of cinema verite, the sense of vast structures crumbling around us; he was by then forty-five, and the culture, too, was changing.

Some outfits may be a bit frizzy if they're used to seat-of-the-pants solutions, like simply throwing bandwidth at problems.

A day of spirited driving on country roads showed little difference in seat-of-the-pants performance between the two engines.

Although the fly-on-the-wall documentary series was not the cause of the Royal Opera House's problems, it alerted a broad viewing public to backstage crises, financial brinkmanship, and seat-of-the-pants management decisions.

Although Brown had no specific venture capital experience, his seat-of-the-pants entrepreneurial talents and business background in computers, land development, advertising and telecommunications seemed to fit the HVCA post.

Acceleration to 60 mph is slower by a mere 0.1 second (automatic) or .02 seconds (manual), but the seat-of-the-pants feeling actually seems quicker.

For instance, even within a single language, commercial database searching remains a fairly unscientific, "seat-of-the-pants thing," observes Richard S.