Word: prune
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outplacement specialists see nothing but growth ahead for their business. The increasingly competitive economic climate, they insist, will lead more and more businesses to prune their executive ranks, while expanding firms will continue to seek experienced men. Besides, the outplacers do more than salve the conscience of the boss who sends a dismissed subordinate to them; they also may save him money. Hubbard cites the case of a company that offered to continue the $40,000 salary of a fired executive for a year while he looked for another job. After going through THinc.'s program, the executive quickly...
...holding companies own or control hundreds of firms round the world, including the U.S.'s Shell Oil Co.* For years Royal Dutch/Shell had two separate headquarters in Britain and The Netherlands. A decade ago, with help from the management consulting firm of McKinsey & Co., it started to prune and unify management. Now it has what one senior officer calls "a single head office with a wide, watery corridor between the wings...
Mitchell's department was just as insensitive in selecting the Supreme Court nominees. Mitchell originally assigned his deputy, Richard Kleindienst, to compile a list of some 150 potential Justices. Applying Nixon's guidelines, he reduced the list to about 30 names. Mitchell then helped prune it to just five, including Burger, Haynsworth and Carswell. He decided that Burger was best and recommended him for Chief Justice. When Fortas resigned, Mitchell asked another assistant, William Rehnquist, to study Haynsworth's legal record. Since Fortas had been tainted by his financial interests, the FBI carefully probed Haynsworth's business background. It turned...
...spicy turn, you plop into a hydrother-apeutic bath frothing with sesquicar-bonates, lithium chloride, magnesium sulfate, hexachlorophene-everything, presumably, but cyclamates. BELLY BUDGETING. More appetizing recipes are offered in the spa's dietetic dining room. There guests bend over their menus like accountants, busily subtracting a prune whip (40 calories) here and adding a rutabaga julienne (36) there. "Spoof champagne" is served from big icy bottles with popping corks. As your dinner companions chat about "bulging adipose tissue" and "draining metabolic pools," it's reassuring to discover that you are only sipping carbonated water with grape flavoring...