Word: retrenchments
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With the homebuilding industry in a long-running slump, profits in the plumbing fixtures business have been swirling swiftly down the drain. For companies that make tubs, toilets, sinks and showers, it would seem a time to retrench...
...America's most influential universities, it carries a heavy responsibility to support academic values, to work for diversity and tolerance, and to recognize that its actions do affect the outside world, be it Cambridge or South Africa. It is a responsibility on which Harvard must not retrench...
...LATEST BATCH of heartless cuts recommendations from Washington has spawned more destruction than just the disappearance of whole categories of financial aid. An unavoidable "ripple effect" goes further. It forces strapped universities to retrench on evenhanded and compassionate admissions policies they can no longer afford...
...expected challenges to the constitutionality of the legislation fall short, the impact of Helms' initiative could be even more stark. More than half of the 35,000 Boston students who are currently bused to school ride more than 15 minutes--raising the spectre that Boston would have to retrench dramatically on its widespread desegregation plans...
Consumer advocates retrench for hard times