Word: extinctionism
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Job hopping is only part of the problem of excessive employee turnover. U.S. firms are also quicker to fire workers in cyclical economic downturns than are their foreign counterparts. Compare the behavior of Chrysler and Mazda when they both faced economic extinction. Chrysler fired thousands of workers; Mazda went to...
Too late. As Angels lurched toward extinction, it kept stumbling into new dificulties. ABC rescheduled it against tougher competition on Sunday nights (Archie Bunker's Place and CHiPS), a test that sent its ratings plunging one week to 59th out of 65 shows. There were threats of litigation over...
Invisible, otherwise undetectable, luck can be known only by its works. It is the strange, unknowable force that deposited Lana Turner in a Schwab's pharmacy 46 years ago, that placed a football in Franco Harris' hands ("the immaculate reception") at the end of the Pittsburgh-Oakland championship...
Another attraction that has helped to bring the cruise business back from near extinction: shipboard casino gambling.
She imported two hairdressers, one from New York and one from Los Angeles, and took one of them along during a helicopter ride to an event so she could arrive freshly combed. The old Republican cloth coat that was good enough for Pat Nixon seemed destined for extinction.