Word: gapped
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...laid out a "core business strategy" to make its programs "more purposeful," as one executive put it. Although November is cookie month - your doorbell may be ringing - the Scouts don't want to be known for cookies and camping anymore. Instead, executives use phrases like "outcomes-based," "pathways," "gap teams," "fading brand image" and "market share" to describe the new approach. (See pictures of pioneering women in space.) (See pictures of pioneering women in sports...
...chairman and CEO Richard Wagoner. Ford's health-care expenses for both active and retired employees now run $2.2 billion, a figure that will drop significantly thanks to the solution provided by the trusts. Once the retiree-health-care liabilities are removed from company balance sheets, the gap in labor costs between Detroit and its nonunion competitors in the South should drop to $250 per vehicle or even less, according to one estimate by the Center for Automotive Research. (Read "Don't Call It Bankruptcy...
Obama knows that although Iraq has tarnished the GOP foreign policy brand, Democrats remain vulnerable. When the moderate Democratic group Third Way asked voters in September whom they trusted more on national security, Democrats trailed by 14 points. (The gap has widened substantially since late 2006.) On the question of "ensuring a strong military," they trailed by 30 points--an astonishing figure, given that it is a Republican President who has stretched the Army to its breaking point...
Leibovitz’s career began as an art student in San Francisco. In 1970, she began working for Rolling Stone Magazine and became its chief photographer soon after. Since then she has gone on to take photographs for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and advertising campaigns for American Express, Gap, and Louis Vuitton...
...When her luggage failed to appear at JFK airport, Schillaci filed a claim with Eurofly. She was especially desperate to get her bag back because it contained more than $1,000 worth of new clothes she'd bought in Italy. We're not talking T shirts from the Gap. These were fine Italian-made garments...