Word: blueprints
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...trade unions to rub out the pension's deficit over the next decade through one-off cash injections and changes to employee benefits. Two months later, "Slasher," as Walsh was known while rescuing the Irish carrier from the brink, cut hundreds of senior managers. Soon afterward, he unveiled a blueprint for shrinking BA's costs by close to $1 billion, partly through further job cuts. With fewer bills to pay, BA looks set next year to hit its target operating margin of 10%, its highest ever...
...story line designed primarily to help Republicans deflect the heat for a mission that did not turn out as planned. That has always been an advantage of the surge, after all: when it was unveiled last winter, it was difficult to tell if the new tactic was really a blueprint for the final victory or just a holding action to signal to Americans that the U.S. had done its damnedest before quietly pulling the plug on the enterprise. Bush isn't yet ready to blame anyone else. Instead, he has been waiting for months for this showdown with...
Such is the razzle-dazzle of French President Nicolas Sarkozy that he is able to turn a speech to business leaders on such staid topics as labor contracts, taxation, inflation and purchasing power into some truly captivating theatrics. During a nearly 45-minute address billed as the blueprint of the second phase of Sarkozy's economic reforms, the gesticulating, sardonic, often dramatic President drew applause, laughter and even a gasp or two of excitement as he described how he intends to make France a more competitive economy...
...changes to employee benefits. Two months later, "Slasher" - as Walsh was known at the Irish carrier for culling a third of its staff while rescuing it from the brink - went to work on BA's head count. Hundreds of senior managers got the boot. Soon afterward, he unveiled a blueprint for shrinking BA's costs by close to $1 billion, partly through further job cuts. With fewer bills to pay, BA looks set to hit its target operating margin of 10% next year, its highest ever. With its debts reduced, credit agencies have raised the company's rating to investment...
...declared my intention to make it a priority. The people behind the violence should have the conviction that my government is serious about dealing with their grievances. I have been talking to leaders from that region and am convinced we will succeed. I will launch a comprehensive blueprint that will address the crisis in the Delta once and for all within my first hundred days of taking office...