Word: drumbeating
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...economy, meanwhile, is hurting. GDP is expected to grow only 4% this year?half of last year's level and rock-bottom by Korean standards. Headlines bring a steady drumbeat of bad news about major companies like Hynix, a chipmaker that's flirting with bankruptcy. Worse, Korea's exports are slowing?ominous for a trade-dependent economy. This is all unfavorable, too, for Kim's approval rating, now about 25%, down from more than 70% during his early days in office. The President's sinking popularity will make it harder to fix the economy and to bargain effectively with...
There has been a steady drumbeat of bad news on the job front in Europe. Just last month, the Swiss engineering firm ABB announced 12,000 layoffs, 8% of the company's workforce. Infineon, Europe's second-largest chipmaker, said it is downsizing 5,000 workers because of a slowdown in the electronics sector. Ericsson, Sweden's big telecom equipment provider, said it would stop making mobile phones - a decision that will put 2,600 out of work in southern Sweden. In fact, in just a single week in late July, European companies announced a total of 30,000 layoffs...
...Boggess tell it: "The meeting danced back and forth all afternoon. I never heard the drum. When the drummer gets near the end of a song, there is always a hard drumbeat that is the signal that the song is about to end. We never got that drumbeat today...
Eager to get away from a friend who needed my support, I wrapped a pink glow stick around my wrist and waited for the recruiters to approach. None did. So after an hour, I walked up to Kenji Mitsuka, a producer at Drumbeat Digital, a Web development company. I asked Kenji if he could hook me up with a writing job. After listening to my qualifications, he asked me if I could write insurance brochures. I told him I could try, if Aetna didn't mind insurance brochures with penis jokes in them. Then he said, "You don't have...
...earnings drumbeat is far from over...