Word: shedding
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...Tuesday, Rickie Doty, president of the UAW Local 974 here, sat in his office and carefully considered the future. Just one day earlier, Caterpillar Inc., his employer of 35 years and one of the world's leading purveyors of construction equipment, announced it would shed some 20,000 jobs - nearly one-fifth of its global workforce. The announcement just made things official: the bulk of that astonishing figure is already off the Peoria company's books, including some 2,500 management-level personnel who accepted buyouts in recent weeks and 8,000 people who worked on contract or through agencies...
...economy, the problem is that in many markets, houses still cost too much. Housing consultancy Zelman & Associates compared what houses cost with how much people earn and found plenty of markets - including Seattle; Miami; Norfolk, Va.; Philadelphia; Los Angeles; and Salt Lake City - where homes would have to shed at least 30% more in value to get back to being as affordable as they have been historically...
...time to shed the Bush-era belief that diplomacy doesn’t work. Unlike outright military coercion, simple diplomacy is a powerful tool whose countless successes greatly outnumber its failures. Although the Iranian Revolution and the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 still leave many Americans bitter, the time for holding grudges has passed. Simply put, the potential for economic benefits, a more stable Middle East, and—perhaps most importantly—saving American soldiers’ lives are simply too great for the US to overlook, even in the face of such a gross offense to international...
...Healthy human beings carry 46 chromosomes, 23 contributed by the egg and 23 by the sperm. Eggs begin their development process with the full complement of 46, but shed half of them, tucking them into a small genetic bundle known as a polar body, which mirrors the chromosomes of the egg. Investigators at the U.K.'s CARE Fertility clinic, under the direction of Dr. Simon Fischel, harvested nine eggs from a woman who had undergone 13 failed cycles of IVF implantation and, in addition, suffered two miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy. Using a laser scalpel, they extracted the polar bodies...
...stock performance of selected clean tech companies - is down more than 60% since its peak in November of 2007, slammed by the double blow of the loss of venture capital and the reduced urgency for energy alternatives as the price of oil has tumbled. Clean tech startups have already shed jobs, and weaker ones are certain to go under. "The financial crisis has hit us harder than anyone would have imagined," says Marcel Brenninkmeijer, the chairman of Good Energies, a global clean tech investment fund. "We just can't get financing...