Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know what happened," Ingram said. "We dominated the first half, but then we just came out flat in the second half...
...that business is bad for Loegering, which makes over-the-tire tracks for front-end loaders like Bobcat vehicles. On the contrary, the firm has revenues of just under $25 million; 50 employees are working flat-out, and Loegering wants to hire 10 more in the next year. But in the Fargo area the unemployment rate is a teensy 1.4%, and finding good help is no small task. Last year Loegering's traditional newspaper ads drew only 15 to 20 resumes apiece, even for upper-management positions with competitive salaries. That's when Loegering decided to "step...
...talent, executives say they're focused on the bottom line. "Our investment is in keeping health-care costs down," says D'Ann Whitehead, preventive-health-services manager at Chevron. A study by the MEDSTAT Group consulting firm found that over the past eight years, Chevron had held medical expenses flat and slashed worker sick days by using everything from massage to smoking restrictions...
...Lynchburg, in the foothills of central Virginia, is a good candidate for the capital of the Bible Belt: the Rev. Jerry Falwell preaches his Sunday sermon in the Thomas Road Baptist Church, one of more than 150 churches in this small city. Laramie is everything Lynchburg is not--flat and empty, a Wild West railroad-stop-turned-progressive college town. To imagine the two cities is to imagine the vastness of America...
...night to consolidate his position in second place, hammering the special-interests-control-Washington theme while at the same time burnishing his centrist credentials by affirming his tolerance for pro-choice positions within the GOP and for gay rights. Steve Forbes basked in the fact that his flat tax had become something of a conventional wisdom among Republicans, Gary Bauer tried to claim the Buchanan legacy as the choice of the blue-collar conservative, while Senator Orrin Hatch and Alan Keyes struggled to find signature issues that could register a bump in the polls. In the end, the forum...