Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Recently, we got students behind the student loan tax cut at the State House," he said...
Despite their clean-cut, preppy looks, the two are co-presidents of the Harvard Shooting Club, a 116-year-old organization that is seeing its membership increase after two years of dormancy...
...promise of increased savings to shareholders plays a key role in the precedent-setting battle between Olivetti and Telecom Italia. Franco Bernabe, who took over as chief executive of the recently privatized Telecom only last November, promised to cut costs $560 million a year, including a staff cut of 40,000 employees, nearly a third of the company's total, if shareholders reject the Olivetti bid. Olivetti in turn promised to cut the staff by 12,000 and to spin off noncore operations if its $58 billion plan, among the largest hostile takeovers in history, is accepted. It's easy...
...campaign behind the new product. (Tag line: "Why not?") Hallmark too is trying to ignite sales in its 20,000 mass-market retail outlets and erase any notion consumers might have that it's a high-priced product. But the move--remember Marlboro Friday, when market leader Philip Morris cut the price of smokes?--will fall heavily on its struggling rivals, who can least afford it. "When the leading brand advertises so strongly on price, it's very disturbing," grumbles Frank O'Connell, CEO of Gibson. "They're going to pull pricing down for other companies by trying to compete...
...company still sells premium-priced (about $5) cards in its own shops and franchised outlets, the real battle has shifted to the mass-market stores, such as supermarkets and discounters. There the cardmakers are left slugging it out over exclusive contracts for coveted shelf space. The aggressive deals cut by retailers, combined with slowing sales volume, have put the squeeze on profits...