Word: slump
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nestle's sales. He has gobbled up companies including Dreyer's ice cream, Chef America and, biggest of all, the pet-food company Ralston Purina. Some analysts have questioned whether Brabeck is paying too much for his conquests and taking on too much debt amid a global slump that is lingering longer than expected. But at the same time, Brabeck has moved to boost profitability by closing dozens of creaky factories, ditching low-margin operations such as cocoa-and tomato-processing plants and improving productivity. Under his leadership, the company has cut manufacturing costs by $2.8 billion, and more savings...
...older director's." Perhaps that's why people have been wondering if he'd gone into early retirement. The director of such indelible movies as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now hasn't put out a film in 10 years and has been, by his own admission, in a creative slump for 25. So now he's changing tactics: since he couldn't scramble out of the ditch going forward, he's trying reverse. For his next film, the aptly titled Youth Without Youth, Coppola, 68, returned to a stage of his career he feels ended prematurely: the beginning...
...have our first big-game catch of the 2007 housing slump and credit crunch. On Oct. 30, Stan O'Neal resigned his post as CEO of Merrill Lynch after reporting that his firm would suffer a $7.9 billion hit to the value of its assets because of bad bets on mortgage-related securities. O'Neal personally took blame for Merrill's forceful push into complex instruments designed to distribute the risk of a surging subprime-mortgage market--the ones now imploding as home prices flatline and defaults spike...
Norries Wilson is a good football coach. After last season’s surprise 5-5 finish, the Lions are experiencing a sophomore slump in Wilson’s second year as big man on campus in Morningside Heights. But they are well-prepared and don’t back down from challenges, as evidenced by last weekend’s first-half shutout of powerhouse Yale...
...subprime turmoil, Read of CalPERS said it never crossed his mind to write the industry off. "We definitely did not see it as a time to leave hedge funds," he says. Maybe now, if hedgies can just clean up their acts a little, they can put their summer slump completely behind them...