Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is mounting evidence that this slash-and-burn labor policy is backfiring. Studies now show that a number of companies that trimmed their work forces not only failed to see a rebound in earnings but found their ability to compete eroded even further. "What's happened shouldn't be called downsizing. It's dumbsizing," says Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. "All these firings are going to end up hurting our international competitiveness, not helping...
...residence bowling alley. The President squeezed his size-13 feet into the size-10 shoes left by the Bush Administration and shared the one ball for three games until the blisters began to form. Upstairs, amid a growing mound of coffee cups, pizza boxes from Listrani's and burn bags filled with discarded drafts, the team was trying to compress Clinton's huge vision for America into a size-10 Treasury. By dawn Wednesday, there was a crisp stack of pages on Clinton's desk to be torn apart...
...want." He has dated Brooke Shields, but the actress says, with a smile in her voice, "He has not asked me to marry him. Maybe that's going to be on the next Oprah show." Shields, 27, also grew up naked before the camera and understands the slash and burn of early fame. "It is very hard," she says of Jackson, "when your family turns against you, and when anyone you befriend slaps you in the face. It would amaze you the way people hurt him. What amazes me even more is his willingness to forgive. He acknowledges their frailty...
...network admits rigging a crash-and-burn of a GM truck...
...PICTURES ARE EVERYTHING. The firm that NBC hired staged just two crashes. GM trucks do not, of course, explode in half of all sideways collisions, or there wouldn't be many left on the road. So the consultants helped things along. As GM later demonstrated, the truck that did burn -- apparently because it had an ill-fitting gas-tank cap, made for a different truck -- ignited for only about 15 sec. But to ensure that its images were graphic, NBC used tightly edited shots in which the flames looked much worse...