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I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
Peter Arnett / Journalist
Fear
Awe
Downsizing
Shock
Shock And Awe
Fired
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We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.
Debbie Stabenow / United States Senator
Downsizing
Michigan
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Eventually, I became involved with somebody and I was fired.
Tommy Kirk / Actor
Downsizing
Involved
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Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Destructive
Downsizing
Economy
Inevitable
Insightful
Marketing
Creatively
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You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.
Jerry Coleman / Baseball Player
Asks
Downsizing
Liable
Fired
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The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.
Jim Cramer / Television Personality
Corporate
Downsizing
Economy
Killers
Mutual
Mutual Fund
Directly
Funds
Mutual Funds
Responsive
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Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
Bill Murray / Actor
Downsizing
Faster
Ifs
Fired
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed
Gavrilo Princip /
Downsizing
Knowing
Knows
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'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
Scott Adams / Comic Strip Creator
Jobs
Dilbert
Downsizing
Theme
Job Security
Popular
Strip
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If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Downsizing
Winning
Fired
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Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.
Terry Gilliam / Screenwriter
Different
Downsizing
Thinking
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I had a little house, and I sold that and moved into a condo, then sold the condo... I kept downsizing and downsizing.
Sheryl Lee / Film Actress
Downsizing
Condo
Sold
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On 'Downsizing,' I had a trailer, and I got to bring my dog to work, and I thought, 'I've made it: I'm bringing my dog to work.'
Hong Chau /
Downsizing
Bringing
Trailer
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I don't want anyone to think I took this role in 'Downsizing' because it was the only role available to me. I'm not a passive participant in it.
Hong Chau /
Downsizing
Passive
Me Want Because
Participant
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There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.
N. Robert Hammer /
Downsizing
Equity
Funding
Unfortunate
Denying
Receives
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Product downsizing in the face of inflation in order to maintain retail price points has long been used by food companies, notably manufacturers of candy.
John Quelch /
Candy
Downsizing
Inflation
Retail
Companies
Maintain
Manufacturers
Price
Product
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Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
Susan George / Film Actress
Acquisition
Downsizing
Investment
Mergers
Accompanied
Acquisitions
Course
Generally
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People's financial situation has changed, and they surrender their cats all the time, because they're downsizing or moving to a property where they are not allowed to have pets.
Celia Hammond /
Downsizing
Surrender
Time Where People
Time People Situation
Cats
Time Situation People
Pets
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But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
David Korten / Author
Downsizing
Globalization
Resources
Companies
In The Past
Profits
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With 'Downsizing,' a lot of the discussion hasn't been about the film itself, but about cultural and political conversations happening outside of it. It's being digested in the context of the time.
Hong Chau /
Discussion
Downsizing
Context
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In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Bars
Corporate
Downsizing
Executives
Judging
Setting
Wall
Bar
Option
Flak
Harshly
Slash
Wall Street
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In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Technology
Cutting
Downsizing
Practice
Work Business Technology
Bringing
Fill
Gap
Pull
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The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing.
Said Musa /
Activity
Administration
Big Government
Downsizing
Economic
Firing
Inevitable
Mass
Misguided
Private Sector
Workers
Depressed
Economic Activity
Facet
Private
Result
Sector
Squeezed
Wanting
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What about Hong Chau? In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through 'Downsizing,' already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with a limp and sharp angles. The movie's satirical cleverness upstages its rage; then Ms. Chau proves she's capable of managing both.
Wesley Morris / Journalist
Capable
Downsizing
Halfway
Rage
Satirical
Typical
Vietnamese
Angles
Cleaner
Limp
Ms
Proves
Sharp
Shrunk
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