Word: ax
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...locomotives chosen for Amtrak's East Coast Acela service in the U.S. The company's new plan emphasizes its "many opportunities for synergies," and Tellier is already primed for some serious nipping and tucking. The day after the company halved its earnings guidance in March, Tellier announced he would ax 10% of the work force in the aircraft unit, on the heels of deep job cuts last year. A decade ago, few would have guessed Embraer would be Bombardier's main competitor in the regional-jet business. But Embraer's 1994 privatization heralded Brazil's new push...
...Married by America, the audience is supposed to pick a couple to get hitched. But it turns out one contestant, former Playboy model DENISE L., is already wed. Upside: she may, if Fox doesn't ax her, attract coveted Mormon viewers...
...shrink, or an offstage presence referred to as Gospod Bog (Lord God) or just G.B., a pun on his past as a KGB officer. Another caricature - "Little Zaches," a vicious dwarf who bewitched a city into regarding him as a wise ruler - particularly infuriated Putin and his camp. The ax fell in mid-2000, when Gusinsky was accused of embezzlement and arrested. He left the country and eventually was forced to sell his assets to Gazprom, the state-run natural-gas monopoly that would later use its security force to stage a dramatic on-air takeover of NTV. Parfyonov chose...
...paper from former partner Washington Post last month. Independent or not - critics say it wasn't great at delivering a unique perspective anyway - the IHT has been unprofitable since 1999. The advertising slump that hit almost all publications forced Goldmark to make painful job cuts before he got the ax himself. Even Goldmark concedes that the old structure was unsustainable, and while readers looking for a truly independent paper may share his angst, the Times' move is logical in a tough business climate. And the paper will need all the help it can get: last Friday the jilted Washington Post...
...pout of a sullen schoolgirl; his hair was swathed in more chemicals than a starlet's; his hips churned like a hooker's in heat. Presley was manly too, in a street-punk way. For him, the electric guitar was less an instrument than a symbolic weapon - an ax or a machine gun aimed at the complacent pop culture of the 50s. Performing his pansexual rite to a heavy bass line, Elvis set the primal image for rock: a man and his guitar, the tortured satyr and his magic lute. He also established the androgyny of the male star...