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...retire or resign by the end of this year. But when the estimate of departing workers doubled to 40,000 last week, the effect was numbing, both to the public and to the markets, where IBM stock is trading near its 10-year low. By the time the last pink slip and gold watch are handed out, the world's largest computer company will be but three-quarters the size...
...free market" solution, which has already cost 300,000 defense workers their jobs since 1989. Weapons firms are notoriously loath to beat their swords into plowshares: Why brave the rigors of the market if you've been suckled on cost-plus contracts? It's easier to mail out the pink slips...
Miller was dressed with conspicuous informality; almost as a self-parody, with his black jeans, black leather jacket and, naturally, the metaphorical heart on his sleeve: a pink triangle, stark against the black...
...Minutes went to check out the scene and meet the personalities that so often intimidate passers-by. Unfortunately it was raining on Saturday. And all we could find were Izzy, his friend Andrew and a pair of pink-robed hare krishnas...
...luckily for me, I'm not that dumb--I had my insurance card with me. The police officer behind the bullet-proof glass window handed me a pink slip and told me that "Pat's Towing Service" was just a straight walk down the street--straight and straight and straight. It was in Somerville. Past Inman Square. (I always wondered where that was.) Past about 12 car repair shops, each of which made me think that I was close to my destination...