Word: slim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest in the company's history, trailing only the $5.5 billion reorganization charge the company took in the fourth quarter of 1983, when the breakup of the Bell System was just starting. Like many other large U.S. corporations, from Exxon to General Motors, AT&T has been forced to slim down to compete more effectively in an increasingly fierce global marketplace. Last week IBM said it had reduced its 242,000 American payroll by 10,000 jobs in 1986 by offering employees incentives for early retirement. The computer company says it sees "no signs of improvement" in its general worldwide...
Wanda: Not really, Ralph. Only the financial provisions seem to be enforceable. Barnett drew up a clause for a man who wanted his wife to remain slim, so the marriage contract said she would pay a fine if she gained weight, refundable upon weight loss. It's probably legally binding. Weitzman wants to see "liquidated damages." If the hubby is supposed to fix the plumbing and doesn't, he would have to pay the value of that service as a fine...
...since Slim Pickens rode a rocket to Russia in Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick's Cold War comedy classic, has a film stared so unabashedly down the throat of Armageddon. But whereas Dr. Strangelove's power stems from the way Kubrick's finger flirts with the Little Red Button, Tarkovsky presses the button down, then holds it, firmly, for two-and-a-half hours. The result is a film as difficult to assess as the Bomb itself, generating shockwaves of a political, moral, historical, and spiritual nature. The Sacrifice almost demands too much of the viewer, pushing him from breakdown...
Although the Crimson was out-rebounded by a slim 31-30 margin, it was the squad's inability to box out for the second straight game which played a major role in the defeat...
...took a while for the Harvard fencing teams to click last night at MIT. Both the men's and the women's squad held slim early leads, and both faced rival rallies--but both eventually disposed of the host Engineers...