Word: sprint
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Coach Jason Saretsky pumped his fist into the air with satisfaction as he watched the last member of his 4x400 relay team sprint across the finish line. Immediately, chants of “Crimson” and “Number One!” were heard from both the track and the stands, as athletes and spectators alike made their approval loud and clear after realizing that the men’s track team had just pulled off an upset in nail-biting fashion. Such was the atmosphere on Saturday afternoon at Gordon Indoor Track, as the Harvard men?...
Last week was brutal for the workplace, with U.S. companies - like Caterpillar, Boeing, Sprint Nextel and Target - cutting more than 80,000 jobs all told. Losing your paycheck in a recession is certainly awful, and those who hold on to their jobs are no doubt better off than their fallen colleagues. But watching colleagues pack their things and go - and dealing with guilt that it wasn't you, anxiety that you might be next, exhaustion from the extra work you must take on and even envy of those who get to leave such a sullen environment - that's not much...
...SPRINT NEXTEL...
...cuts, is the behemoth of software, silently manipulating ones and zeros. Worlds apart, they've come together in the layoff business. Whether a company chops trees (Weyerhaeuser) or prices (Target), whether it sells Lipitor (Pfizer) or lumber (Home Depot), whether it services oil rigs (Baker Hughes) or cell phones (Sprint Nextel), job one is cutting payroll...
...seems impossible that a handful of companies could put nearly 80,000 people out of work in a day. Caterpillar (CAT), Pfizer (PFE), Texas Instruments (TXN), Sprint (S), and Home Depot (HD) did most of the damage. What was not seen in the headlines was the thousands of smaller American firms which also fired people over the same 24-hours. Could 200,000 people across the economy have been put out of work in one day? Of course...