Word: rollback
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...books dominated the Ivy landscape over the past four years. Ivy presidents ran scared, trying to fix the perceived flaws that these works unearthed. The athletic rollback movement culminated in the 2003 cutbacks at the Council of Ivy Group Presidents’ spring meeting, which, among other things, cut the size of incoming football recruiting classes from 35 to 30, raised the Academic Index (AI) floor from 169 to 171 and cut the number of full-time and part-time football coaches...
...will be a stretch. And yet not every cautious consumer is in the Kerry camp. After several months of joblessness, Jesse Roecke, 46, of Midland, Mich., will soon start work as a senior executive for Goodyear Tire & Rubber. He's more frugal now but unwilling to accept Kerry's rollback of tax cuts. "I believe there's a broad-based recovery," he says. "Bush was on the right track...
...phone plants in Germany. Philips is discussing increasing working hours at its Hamburg semiconductor plant as part of a cost-cutting plan. Automakers DaimlerChrysler and Opel, the German arm of General Motors, and railroad firm Deutsche Bahn are currently negotiating longer hours with their unions. The German rollback has become possible because of new union contracts that allow for extended working hours in exchange for investment guarantees. But companies are also talking tough. Siemens isn't paying more wages for the extra hours, but it agreed not to move operations to Hungary. French firms are watching enviously. Finance Minister Nicolas...
TIME: Let's look at your "de-Baathification" policy. There seems to have been a rollback on that in recent months. Was that a function of having a short deadline, and needing to speed up the transition...
...cases that Spitzer is personally working on. His caseload isn't entirely about corporate wrongdoing. He's also challenging a federal attempt to pre-empt states from enforcing predatory-lending laws, and a few months ago won a ruling that forced the Bush Administration to reverse its rollback of pollution regulations that applied to big utilities. "The EPA [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] cases are huge," he says. But Spitzer clearly sees Wall Street as his bailiwick; an avid and aggressive tennis player, he keeps a tennis ball with the Merrill Lynch logo on it, occasionally palming it as he chats...