Word: trim
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...which bought struggling Mini maker Rover in 1994. The standard Mini has always been underpowered, but auto critics are raving about a zippier new 163-h.p. version, available this summer. Want electronic navigation or a six-speaker CD player? No problem. Personalize it with 100 color and trim combinations, from shift knobs to stripes and fender flares...
There were only about 40 people on hand to witness it last Tuesday night when Al Gore dipped a tentative toe back into politics. At a fund raiser for Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal at a downtown Washington steak house, Gore--still bearded and not yet back in fighting trim--tried out a few self-deprecating one-liners. He spends his days teaching a bit, he told the smallish room. "I'm a visiting professor--v.p. for short. It's a way of hanging...
There were only about 40 people on hand to witness it last Tuesday night when Al Gore dipped a tentative toe back into politics. At a fund raiser for Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal at a downtown Washington steak house, Gore - still bearded and not yet back in fighting trim - tried out a few self-deprecating one-liners. He spends his days teaching a bit, he told the smallish room. "I'm a visiting professor - v.p. for short. It's a way of hanging...
...Diversification is also helping to create new jobs outside Korea's traditional mainstay employers, the conglomerates, which have been forced to shed staff to stay competitive. Shim Kyung Joo was working at giant Sunkyung Chemicals' game division when the Asian crisis hit. The financially strapped chaebol had to trim its business empire, so Shim secured some venture capital from the government and turned his division into a software company called Wizard Soft. Freed from the dead hands of chaebol executives, Shim and his young gamemakers were soon spinning off hit products like Jurassic Era Primitive War II. The company...
...Bush might have saved all this trouble by simply writing U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel and the other ailing domestic producers the up-to-$12 billion bailout check they wanted, allowing them to pay off those crippling "legacy costs," consolidate at will, and get back in fighting trim without affecting U.S. prices or global relations. But unless Bush changes his mind in the 30 days before the tariffs kick in, it's over. The decision is made, and the damage is done...