Word: trim
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...seems to have dropped a nice vehicle into each of the major slots in the U.S. car market. It sells a nifty entry-level coupe and has a mammoth minivan called the Entourage. It markets SUVs and small sedans. They don't have any more or less cheap plastic trim in their interiors than a Honda. They are simply serviceable cars and trucks that probably won't break down...
...have to be. If you have to get new work right away, try to make it consulting work that's at your level. A great place for consulting work is the place that just laid you off. They need to get that work done; they just needed to trim the overhead. You can conceivably continue working at that company. (Learn why dentists are making more money during the recession...
...news article "Harvard To Trim Custodial Staff" incorrectly stated the number of custodial workers employed by American Cleaning Company to work at Harvard Medical School. The company currently provides 33 custodial workers, not 27, according to Medical School spokesman David Cameron. The article also incorrectly stated the number of custodial workers directly employed by HMS. The school employs 77 workers directly...
Harvard’s endowment, valued at almost $37 billion last June, was buffeted by current financial conditions, losing roughly 22 percent of its value by the end of October and sending the University scrambling to find ways to trim costs. Amidst subsequent belt-tightening measures—including a hiring freeze on FAS staff announced in November—the specter of possible layoffs has loomed over some staffers worried that their jobs may be in jeopardy...
...process concurrent with more over-arching cost-reduction measures being spearheaded by the administration. In an interview last month, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said departments have submitted proposals detailing areas that could sustain cuts. The “vast majority” of departments have founds ways to trim 15 percent of their budgets in keeping with a recommendation Smith made in December, the Dean said. “Part of the issue here is we can’t stop the business of the whole education process as we’re moving forward,” Smith...