Word: cuttingly
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Most of GM's current workers have a reasonably good chance of keeping their jobs if the company remains independent and gets significant government loans. GM has already cut so many blue collar workers that it operates with a skeleton staff and will not have the capacity to ramp up production with its current staff levels when the car markets eventually rebound even if the rebound is a modest...
...April 30 deadline to pull off a rescue package - or face potential bankruptcy - the United Auto Workers has been in no rush to make concessions. "As I see it, the United Auto Workers union has a choice. They can [shed] some jobs or they can take a pay cut," says a financial consultant based in Detroit. "Naturally when you're faced with two bad choices, there is a natural tendency to procrastinate...
When teens tried to complain in phone calls to parents, the calls were cut off, according to several students interviewed by TIME. Even with good behavior, students say, they were permitted only one monitored, 10-min. phone call every other week...
...order was restored. He wallowed in uncertainty, lying in an empty parking lot, wondering at his existence. He was lying on his back in the lot, in spot number twenty-eight, watching the stars, when headlights swept across his body, and he heard a car engine slow, then cut off. A car door opening, slamming shut, the sound of high-heeled footsteps, and a shadow fell momentarily across his view of the cosmos. His girlfriend’s body settled on top of him, her head on his chest in spot twenty-eight, her feet clacking to a halt...
...also cut her debt to Penn, Schoen & Berland - which stood at close to $5.4 million at the end of last year - by more than half. At some point, though, what's left of the Clinton campaign operation may, in Paster's words, "hit a wall." At that time, the law allows her to seek the FEC's permission to renegotiate the terms of her indebtedness to the company. But that's a conversation for another day, Paster says, adding, "For now, we expect to be paid...