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...runs her own New York City public-relations firm, began trimming costs last year by deferring tech upgrades and bonuses. She then snipped staff perks like free bagel breakfasts, ice cream, yoga--even the fresh flowers that once perfumed the loft offices. It wasn't enough. In a last-ditch effort to hold on to her staff of 40, she asked her partners to swallow a 20% pay cut and other workers to forgo 10%. "It's not a Utopia; we have our good and bad days," she says. But business is picking up, no one has left, and their...
...even a last-ditch campaign push across the state by Jesse Jackson and former President Bill Clinton could galvanize enough of the Democratic base to save McBride. The campaign even rallied around hundreds of detaine Haitian refugees in Miami last week in a not-so-subtle effort to raise the kind of massive black voter turnout that helped Al Gore run neck-and-neck with George W. Bush in Florida two years...
Still tied in polls as the final hours elapsed before Election Day, gubernatorial hopefuls W. Mitt Romney and Shannon P. O’Brien raced through the state yesterday, towing their parties’ top stars in last-ditch efforts to gain the edge before the final reckoning in voting booths...
...professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. That's why Koizumi's appointment of Takenaka last month to head the financial services agency surprised many, who took it as a demonstration of renewed seriousness about breaking the reform gridlock. Others saw it as a last-ditch effort?the political equivalent of the Hail Mary pass?to salvage any semblance of a lasting legacy...
...village's mud walls like desiccated tidal waves, burying houses, blocking streets and suffocating the vines and the mulberry, fig and pomegranate trees that once blossomed here. The 600 villagers survive by gathering desert thornbushes?used for lighting fires?and trading them for access to fetid water from a ditch half a day's ride away by donkey. Abdul Shakur, 63, says every few weeks a huge sandstorm traps him, his wife and their 11 children inside their hut for days on end. Four months ago, the storm came at night and lasted four days; Shakur and his neighbors...