Word: sheds
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...Kind of Blue? Last week, as it shed its personal computer past by finalizing the $1.25 billion sale of its PC division to China's Lenovo, IBM reaffirmed its transformation into an IT services provider - which also meant shedding 10,000 to 13,000 staff in Europe by the end of June. Lower profits and high labor costs have forced IBM to rationalize a business structure that has changed little in decades. Some of the 2,800 staff at IBM's customer service base at Greenock in Scotland are likely to go, as are many marketing and management jobs...
...which has undergone considerable turnover since that time, says it does not have the facts to comment on the allegations, but insists that such practices are not tolerated at the channel now. Gaccio is saying little, although he intends to sue for invasion of privacy, which he hopes may shed light on the other dozen or so employees Martinet says he was told to investigate. "I fear this happens more than we imagine," Gaccio told Time, adding he'd like to speak with Martinet about the case. "An exchange between the spy and the spied-on might teach people...
...members say, if someone has grown up around exclusively pop music, the whole idea of classical can seem intimidating and alien. Members of HRO, collectively indistinguishable from their “normal” classmates except for their devotion to classical music, insist that such fears should be shed. The music, they plead, should not be thought of as academic but visceral—appealing for the same reasons as, say, something like “Signs...
Maria Trumpler, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Quincy House, points out that the policy change will have the positive effect of destroying the stigma surrounding non-honors graduates. In the past, some students have shed tears, Trumpler says, because speakers made jokes during Class Day celebrations at the expense of the 10 percent who left Harvard without honors...
Rizzo wants to shed the memory of last year’s marathon, when exhaustive heat slowed everyone...