Word: waits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friends probably aren't always in your rooms. Who hasn't tried to coordinate complicated evening plans when lots of people are out on the town? "Look, I'll leave a message on your machine after dinner, and you leave on one mine saying where you guys went, and wait for me until 12, but if we miss each other I'll call Julie, and change her incoming message for me or I'll check my e-mail too, if I can." But somebody forgets a crucial step and plans change and there you are. All alone. What...
Layoffs and firings seem to be the handiest solution for other companies too. "Companies no longer wait to ride out the tough spells," says John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago outplacement firm. "They practice just-in-time firings." At chipmaker National Semiconductor, managers voice the optimism of those who feel they have reached the bottom. "We've taken fairly severe actions," says chief financial officer Don Macleod, pointing out that the company cut 1,400 employees in April through attrition and layoffs--10% of its work force --even before posting a loss for the quarter. "Our business...
...past, there is an inherent stability in the narrative: the outcome is already known, and therefore the fluidity of Minot's language is not as jarring as it might be. We always know that her narrative is moving forward toward something, although like her characters, we must wait for it to arise. Ultimately, Minot conveys the sense that there is nothing extraordinarily unsettling, or sad, about Ann's years of waiting. Similarly, there is nothing extraordinarily sad in the conversations Ann's children have among themselves...
...There won't be a toaster," Wu said. "Coffee would be out. We'll wait and see what the cost of having cereal out would...
...Boston arts community has been waiting anxiously for three years. Finally, the wait is over--the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Blue Room is reopening. The room holds several of the Museum's most noteworthy 19th-century acquisitions, including Manet, Delacroix, and Courbet, as well as letters and photographs of such notables as Emerson, the Jameses, Oliver Wendell Holmes and George Santayana. Tues. to Sun. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 280 The Fenway, Boston. 566-1401. $10 adults, $7 seniors, $5 college students, free for those under...