down-sizing

Decades of down-sizing, outsourcing, demands for ever-higher worker productivity, and corporate tricks to generate paper profits have changed traditional expectations about a close tie between healthy business earnings leading to an expanding workforce.

Matthew Yglesias » Unemployment Forever 2010

While largely forgotten now, the recession of the early 1990s caused serious pain for working people, who were being introduced to then-fresh catch phrases such as "down-sizing" and "out-sourcing."

Amy B. Dean: The Roots of the Enthusiasm Gap Go Back to 1992 Amy B. Dean 2010

While largely forgotten now, the recession of the early 1990s caused serious pain for working people, who were being introduced to then-fresh catch phrases such as "down-sizing" and "out-sourcing."

Amy B. Dean: The Roots of the Enthusiasm Gap Go Back to 1992 Amy B. Dean 2010

I've been using a good bit of weight (1/4 oz) and a bait-casting rig, but I think I might try down-sizing the weight and using a stiff spinning outfit next time.

Hey Guys what's your favorite rig for a worm, Texas Rig, Carolina Rig, or Wacky Rig? 2010

Though that used to mean a size 6-8, and still very well could, the production has followed the cultural trends in down-sizing the models, and up-sizing vanity-sizing the clothing for the consumers.

Leona Palmer: Sample Size Me: Money, Culture and Size in Fashion Leona Palmer 2011

If the banks fail the test, it "would actually argue in favor of those calling for a privatization or even a down-sizing of the market share the Landesbanks hold at the moment," said Thorsten Polleit , an economist at Barclays Capital in Frankfurt.

Stress Rules Hit 2 German Banks Laura Stevens 2011

And every day, thousands of Internet users visit an on-line community Shafer co-founded, called the Small House Society, for ideas and advice about down-sizing.

Taking Downsizing to a Whole New Level 2011

Though that used to mean a size 6-8, and still very well could, the production has followed the cultural trends in down-sizing the models, and up-sizing vanity-sizing the clothing for the consumers.

Leona Palmer: Sample Size Me: Money, Culture and Size in Fashion Leona Palmer 2011

Berman had a big op-ed in the Times yesterday (on a Sunday; primo real-estate!) called "Boot the Blue Dogs," in which he endorses the view that the Democrats should intentionally down-size (aside from the unintentional down-sizing they'll get next week) and let some of the Blue Dogs lose and just let those districts go Republican.

Boot the Blue Dogs? Michael Tomasky 2010

I've been using a good bit of weight (1/4 oz) and a bait-casting rig, but I think I might try down-sizing the weight and using a stiff spinning outfit next time.

Hey Guys what's your favorite rig for a worm, Texas Rig, Carolina Rig, or Wacky Rig? 2010