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"We're micromanaging this business right now to get it up and running."

He found that 79 percent of 200 respondents said they had been micromanaged at one time or another.

But as costs fell, micromanaging became a bad business strategy.

It's quite another to emphasize that she's micromanaging every part of the show.

"The former chancellor micromanaged which kids were going to get these services," she said.

As the costs of distribution continue to fall, major information companies have no choice but to stop micromanaging.

Technology in schools will no longer be micromanaged by Whitehall.

"We're tired of being micromanaged by outsiders who know nothing about life inside," he said.

"If we start saying what you can and can't do, it gets down to micromanaging people's freedom on public land."

For most of his tenure as the team's owner, he frequently micromanaged the team.

With astonishing speed, the state has gone into the business of micromanaging morality.

But sometimes we do seem in danger of micromanaging children's social lives, peering a little too closely.

"I am not going to get involved micromanaging those pursuing the truth, when the problem is covering up the crime," he said.

"The days of government micromanaging protocols and standards are passed.

Ms. Stein says that instead of being given autonomy, she was micromanaged.

But Washington does not want to look as if it is micromanaging Iraqi politics.

"You really have to take a stance where you're guiding the principles of the community rather than micromanaging them," he said.

The Clinton plan recognizes that Americans do not want government micromanaging our health care system.

"The best management situation is a board that empowers staff to make decisions, rather than micromanaging them."

We're not going to be micromanaging, second guessing, and interfering in your affairs any more.

"The company is too large to be micromanaged."

Sometimes it seems, he just can't help imposing an agenda on a piece and micromanaging the performance.

Having already sent two sons to college, she had not been the caricature middle-class mother, micromanaging everything.

She moves into a middle-class family's home, where she micromanages family members' private lives.

The mayor, the chancellor and now the City Council must stop micromanaging schools.