Word: slim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disappointment, are considerable. Therefore the White House and the Kremlin have been maneuvering in recent weeks to accomplish three goals: 1) lower expectations for success, 2) assure that if the meeting is indeed a bust, the other side will get the blame, and 3) keep open the possibility, however slim, that something of significance can be accomplished...
...that AT&T once did with the local operating companies. Computer sales, which have been depressed for nearly all firms, are especially bad for AT&T. Said Fritz Ringling, an analyst with Connecticut's Gartner Group: "The company put it off for as long as possible. It has to slim down to compete in a fast, new marketplace...
Still, AT&T intends to proceed carefully. It will rely on financial incentives and attrition to slim its ranks. White-collar managers and lower- level workers will in some cases be offered 60 weeks' severance pay. Others leaving voluntarily will get medical insurance for as long as six months. In deciding whom to let go, seniority will be the first consideration: last hired will be the first fired. A few, only about 2,000, may get reassigned to other jobs in the company...
...board. Amid widespread theorizing that a terrorist bomb aboard the Boeing 747 had caused the accident, investigators were considering other explanations, including the possibility that a spare engine being carried under the plane's right wing might have had something to do with the crash. Although hopes had been slim that the two flight recorders could be found at an estimated depth of 6,000 ft., at week's end sonar scanners aboard a British seabed operations vessel, H.M.S. Challenger, detected a firm signal that Irish authorities identified as the recorders' "homing blip...
...slim, smiling Quoc Cong Tran, 16, who arrived at a San Francisco high school from Viet Nam six months ago, language instruction means a minimum of short-term help in classroom Vietnamese, while he loads up on English in courses called English as a second language. "My future, I choose American," says Quoc...