Word: staving
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...Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has laid off over a quarter of its workforce in an effort to stave off budgetary crisis and bring the still-fledgling institute’s staffing in line with its mission...
Even assuming PeopleSoft fends off his offer, Ellison may yet have the last laugh. This is the era of consolidation in computerland. Companies like IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and USA Interactive have spent billions of dollars snapping up smaller competitors. Others, like Palm and Handspring, have tried to stave off the hungry advances of these giants by merging. Now it's the turn of Ellison's realm, the complex world of business software, to go through some serious cyclical slimming. The outcome will be crucial to owners of widely held tech stocks and people who use their products, which includes just...
...stock buybacks were standard, and that the size of the dividend was in line with other French companies. Neuville isn't satisfied. Pinault's problem, she says, "is that he's too astute. He always goes through the yellow light." Ironically, Gucci is now also the temporary solution. To stave off Arnault's unwanted advances during the takeover battle, Gucci raised capital that it has never used - and thus is sitting atop a pile of cash. Late last month, the company announced that it is distributing j1.34 billion to shareholders, handing an €850 million windfall to PPR. That gave...
...gravity of Uday's injuries, which nearly killed him and resulted in a stroke, brain damage and seizures in addition to the wounds to his torso and left leg. Uday displayed a compulsion to control the tiniest of details in his life, perhaps with the hope that he could stave off the situation in which he finds himself today. According to both a family servant and another source familiar with communications from Uday, despite two U.S. attempts during the war to kill Saddam as well as Uday and his younger brother Qusay, all three survived. Even now, says this other...
RESIGNED. DONALD CARTY, 58, as chairman and CEO of American Airlines; after unions were outraged to learn that he had awarded large bonuses to himself and other top executives last March while workers were being urged to accept wage concessions; in Fort Worth, Texas. To help the airline stave off bankruptcy, the unions nevertheless agreed to $1.6 billion in wage cuts...