Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back orders for new jets, business has gone bad tor Boeing, the world's largest producer of commercial aircraft. Its first-quarter earnings plunged 58%, to $61 million Malcolm Stamper, the company's president, told shocked shareholders at the Boeing annual meeting that he may have 3 trim his Seattle work force...
...mandated balanced budget without tax increases would require Congress and the President to trim more than $100 billion from a budget already stripped bare of social essentials. But with Reagan and Caspar Weinberger calling the shots, you can guess where the bulk of those new cuts would come from...
...grand master of surreptitious sophistication who is portrayed in the Italian press as brooding, moody, uncommunicative and withdrawn-a Heathcliff with Magic Markers-Armani sets a fast pace and a high level of good humor and good will with his 26 employees. A trim, quick figure of medium height, with cobalt eyes, he is all compacted energy, like a jack just popping from his box, as he shows up for work around 9. He may begin his twelve-hour day by doing sketches, while his staff sorts out a regimen that, typically, has no rigid schedules or fixed appointments. Buyers...
...orders it saying "I'll log it off on the way home." Because Arden rents a new Mercedes Renz cash year to drive buses around he drives to work lacks exercise and does not eat dessert because "I'd rather just have an Irish coffee and keep glib and trim...
Corporate accountants have long been worked hard to find ways to trim their companies' tax bite. Of the, 2.4 million corporations that filed returns in 1978, fully 64% were able to avoid all federal income taxes, either because they had no earnings or because they creatively made use of investment tax credits or other IRS technicalities. The maximum tax rate for companies...