Word: pare
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...companies are putting much more invested capital behind each worker these days. Also, "managers are managing differently." They are concentrating on cutting costs much more than in the past. Partly that is because they have been "scared by international competition." And stock options and other incentives push them to pare expenses as the best way to increase profits at a time when price increases run into stiff resistance...
Having just started previews for a May 18 off-Broadway opening, Kaufman and company are still trying to pare down the play's bulky three-hour length. But the work's passion and power are clearly in evidence. On a stage populated mainly by wooden chairs and tables, eight actors talk directly to the audience, describing the interviews they did and re-creating them at the same time. There are choice, often harrowing details: the bartender recalling that the two killers paid for their pitcher of beer entirely in dimes and quarters; a deputy sheriff noting that the only place...
...spades in the U.S., which last week marked its longest period of expansion in history, with unemployment figures (currently 4%) that most European countries can only envy. Hormats predicted more of the same this year. He gave a share of the credit to the Clinton Administration's drive to pare the U.S. budget deficit, which has succeeded beyond anyone's wildest fantasies. Among other things, he noted, the fiscal achievement turned what government economists in the mid-1990s projected would be a $400 billion deficit in fiscal 1999 into a $120 billion surplus. At the same time, individual stock-market...