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...Guardian. Both claims were premature but prescient. He'd stay at the paper for the next 70 years, and he instantly befriended the cinemarati. One of his first film works, which he dubbed All at Sea, was of Chaplin on a yacht with his young protegee, Paulette Goddard, "as trim as shiny as a trout." The Little Tramp, like Cooke an English emigre, asked him to work on a script about Napoleon. (Later the actor-director told Cooke, "It's a beautiful idea, for somebody else," and that was that...
...plan would trim the number of basic requirements for concentrators from six to four, which members of the department said would allow students more leeway to design their own curriculum. Undergraduate advising would also be beefed up under the plan...
When the ax isn't enough, out comes the scalpel. Having laid off tens of thousands of workers, corporations and small businesses are looking for new fat to trim. In September, 2,269 companies had mass layoffs, according to Sirota Survey Intelligence, each affecting 50 or more employees. But many companies are still bleeding cash and desperately searching for novel ways to eke out savings...
...first five shots in the third period, it was the Dutchmen who doubled their lead, as Luke Cain went one-on-one with Hoyle and slid the backhand past him. The goal was the first allowed at even strength by Harvard this season. The Crimson seemed to trim the deficit to one with 40 seconds left, when Alex Biega’s wrist shot found the top right corner of the net, but the goal was disallowed upon video review.RENSSELAER 3, HARVARD 2In a rematch of last Tuesday’s game, Rensselaer (2-5-1, 1-1-0) gave...
...some 10% of its staff - as part of an effort to save $1.8 billion next year as a counterweight to the rising number of consumers defaulting on their payments. Within hours of that announcement, communications giant Motorola Inc., which cut some 2,600 jobs in April, said it would trim an additional 3,000 staffers over the next several months after posting a third-quarter loss of nearly $400 million. It will also postpone a planned spin-off of its ailing cell phone division. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...