Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life on progressive principles, he is no longer sure these tenets do the world any good. Taken together, the plays amount to a cry from the heart for lost certitude. They lack the accusatory force that empowered Miller's plays in the '40s and '50s. But they also shed the naivete that has marked nearly all of his writing, and their contemplative voice is well worth hearing. W.A.H...
...knew she was getting married, and we thought we'd like to do something for her," Ayre said. So for the mere price of $80, David danced for Dias and shed his clothes to the beat--all the way down to a pair of leopard-skin bikini underwear...
...restaging by David Wheeler, based on last year's production directed by Michael Bloom, takes maximum advantage of the versatile A.R.T. company. The Day Room is a play within a play within a play, a whirlwind voyage into the realm of metaphysical therapy in which the cast must shed their identities more rapidly than a den of snakes. And the cast, without exception, demonstrates chameleonlike skill...
...record $190 billion, took place last year. After most of the buyouts, the merged company eliminates staff duplications and unprofitable divisions. In the past six years, for example, General Electric spent $11.1 billion to buy 338 businesses, including RCA, a $6.3 billion acquisition. During the same period, GE shed 232 businesses worth $5.9 billion and closed 73 plants and offices...
...paid its own price after the eighth largest U.S. oil company fought off takeover raids by T. Boone Pickens Jr. in 1984 and by Carl Icahn the following year. Though Phillips kept its independence, it took on some $4.5 billion in new debts and was forced to shed $2 billion in assets in a subsequent reorganization. Partly as a result, Phillips employment in Bartlesville, which had peaked at 9,000 in 1981, was slashed to 5,000 workers. Local unemployment rose from 3.9% in 1984 to 6.7% last year...