Word: slacked
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...rules. If the subsidies aren't repealed by March, the E.U. - with WTO backing - will hit the U.S. with up to $4 billion in tariffs on exports ranging from fruit to machinery. As the U.S. Congress debates the issue, Gonzalez isn't inclined to cut the White House any slack: "This has been going on for three years. What is important is that the U.S. complies." Here comes another eyeball-to-eyeball encounter. Mind The Information Gap This week's World Summit on the Information Society, in Geneva, loftily aims to bridge the digital divide?that is if IT spats...
...wannabes is that cost-cutting companies are relying more on just-in-time staffing, which translates into fewer permanent positions and more disposable workers. The good news--or rather, the less depressing news--is that temporary-staffing firms are picking up some of corporate America's slack and duplicating much of the infrastructure--and benefits--typically associated with working...
...Alex Slack ’06 is a history concentrator in Leverett House. He is a user assistant...
...today, the railing has been replaced by a slack plastic chain looping among short poles that the crowd repeatedly knocks over, and Winters’ white ribbon means absolutely nothing, he says...
...assembly-line glitches. Cost-cutting isn't enough, though. For VW to grow profits, it will need to sell plenty of those higher-margin luxury cars. And to do that it needs to win back America's trust. VWs late-'90s U.S. renaissance came after nearly two decades of slack sales that led it to consider pulling out of North America. What turbocharged sales was the New Beetle, launched in 1998; baby boomers with fond (if pot-hazed) memories of Microbuses and Beetles gravitated to the car, or at least to the dealership, where they saw Jettas and Passats that...