Word: bottomly
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...that changed as corporations discovered they could improve their bottom lines by shifting workers out of costly defined-benefit plans and into much cheaper (for companies) and more risky (for workers) uninsured 401(k)s. In effect, employees took a hefty pay cut and barely seemed to notice. Lawmakers and supporters advocated the move by pointing to a changing economy in which employees switch jobs frequently. They maintained that because defined-benefit plans are based on length of service and an average of salaries over the last few years of work, they don't meet today's needs. But Congress...
...bankruptcy protection, seeking to cut off medical and life-insurance benefits for its retirees. Delphi's pension funds are short $11 billion. To Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor who specializes in bankruptcy, this is just going to get worse, as ever more companies see the value to their bottom line of "scraping off" employee obligations. "There's no business in America that isn't going to figure out a way to get rid of [these benefit promises...
...quite that simple. Cash was 6 ft. 2 in. and held his guitar like a long rifle, with his strumming arm draped around the bottom of the body. Phoenix is 5 ft. 8 in. When music supervisor T-Bone Burnett told him his basic mastery was all right but his strumming was all wrong, it took weeks to relearn how to play. There was also the matter of singing. Phoenix has a warbling, slightly nasal voice that needed extensive training to hit Cash's rumbling lows. "He was pretty horrible when he started," says Dan John Miller, leader...
...Wednesday, 612 tickets were sold ($16 for students, $23 for non-affiliates) from the Harvard Box Office. Considerable buzz about the performance seems to be percolating campus, so, if all continues to go well, Wyclef will have been a solid investment for the Council’s bottom-line—and a considerable investment in building student confidence.However, we still have concerns regarding the allocation of UC funding—which earmarks a portion of its yearly budget to be used at the discretion of the HCC—and the somewhat hasty arrangements that went into the planning...
...First, eliminate the race/ethnicity box at the bottom of the first page of the Common Application. Even though it’s presently optional, the inclusion of such a raw barometer of an applicant’s background on the application implicitly emphasizes those of his or her characteristics that are least important to creating a diverse student body, in the grand scheme of things. It isn’t enough for colleges to claim that applicants’ responses comprise “just another piece of information”; so long as universities proudly publish their minority matriculation...