Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treatment of its employees. However, the story of Malden Mills owner Aaron Feuerstein, who kept his 2,400 employees on the payroll after a devastating fire [BUSINESS, Jan. 8] until his mill could be rebuilt, made me realize there are still employers left who care about more than the bottom line. Feuerstein recognizes that loyal and skilled workers are a lot harder to replace than machines. DALE GADBOIS Houston...
...conservatives who opposed putting U.S. forces under U.N. command, New had argued that he had not taken any oath to serve under U.N. commanders. But the court said that New should be discharged because he refused to carry out a lawful order from his U.S. military commanders. "The bottom line for the military is that you can not pick and chose your orders," says Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "It's a recipe for catastrophe to let soldiers pick and chose what they want to do. Some military people may agree with New's argument that U.S. soldiers should not serve...
...work ethic on this team is incredible from top to bottom," she says. "We want...
...Blue Dogs' Medicare and Medicaid numbers--signaled that the G.O.P. leaders were serious about that strategy. "We've learned a lot about pressure and leverage this year," says Condit. But the goal, he adds, is not to bypass the President. "If we can create some movement from the bottom up, it may be that we can nudge them all out of a ditch...
...course Sun fully expects its profitless approach to turn a profit in the end. More than half the computer servers on the Internet are Sun machines; anything that increases Internet traffic (as Java surely will) is bound to add to Sun's bottom line. Even more interesting, from a business perspective, is the so-called intranet--the collection of networks that connect computers withincorporations--that both Sun and Microsoft have targeted as a rich area for growth. To help head off its chief competitor, Sun last week launched a new JavaSoft division, run by Alan Baratz, a former IBM executive...