Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast-growing small and medium-size companies. The 100 most rapidly expanding U.S. firms last year, according to Inc. magazine, employed an average of 506 workers each, up 835% since 1979. By contrast, the members of FORTUNE magazine's roster of the 500 largest industrial firms have shed 2.2 million jobs, or more than 10% of their workers, during the same period...
...come to the right place. The only problem is choosing the richest, the creamiest, and the most exotic, not to mention toppings. Most people have a favorite they'll swear by, but there are as many opinions as there are varieties of chocolate and vanilla. Forget the purist instinct, shed your inhibitions, let your imagination run wild...
Mondale had also earned a moment of self-congratulation. He had shed enough of his Norwegian reserve to kill the old suspicion, once expressed by his Minnesota mentor Hubert Humphrey, that he lacked "fire in the belly." Still carrying Humphrey's banner of liberalism and contending that his was the party of compassion, Mondale bucked the austere, antigovernment spirit of the times. At several junctures he was down and almost out; each time he bounced back and recaptured the lead. If he scores his expected nomination victory, he will start the November race a heavy underdog. But he will start...
...possible to say, 15 years later, now that they have children and careers and are only a reunion or two from mid-life crises that they are different from other classes? William W. Bushing '69 writes in the 15th year Class Record Book: "I can't shed the spirit of the 60s...How do the rest of you bear the psychological cross of living up to the Harvard promise...
Shales too, now thinks that "Nightline"'s style makes perfect television sense. It's easier to fit in on little boxes. All we need to see is their faces," he says. The style, he continues, enhances the show's strength and its efforts "to shed a lot of light on a variety of issues...