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Constantly trimming down the university employees, whether it is faculty or administration... I don't see how you can say that that is directly going to increase productivity when you load everyone else up with more work.

Steve Reilly

Most of the time, all you are doing is trimming them up and shaping them up.

Justin Hill

Things are going great for us. The auto industry has been going through some tough times. GM has been trimming a lot of fat - something they should have done a long time ago. But we are actually growing and always looking for dedicated hard- working people to hire.

Chris Cain

We have a pretty extensive tree trimming program. We try to be prepared by trimming areas that might be potential problems.

Karl Walquist

Most of the markets in the region are also under selling pressure on fears of rising ( U.S. ) interest rates. The funds have definitely been trimming down their [Asian] exposure.

Alex Tang

Tech stocks are under great selling pressure. A quarter end is coming up and fund managers are probably trimming their positions in the technology sector simply because they don't want to show big tech weights at the end of their reporting period.

Rick Hutcheon

We've actually been at the low-end of the Street range for the fourth quarter ... (and) felt that we had to go even lower, so we did -- a nine percent across-the-board trimming here for the fourth quarter, ... The backlogs are still very significant, but the current environment is just not allowing deals to get done.

Richard Strauss

We are working to keep the system as reliable as we can and keep the price of electricity as affordable as we can. We do that through aggressive tree trimming. In 2005 we spent over $50 million trimming rights of way, more than $21 million in the southern region that includes Hendersonville.

Tim Pettit

Fill the bucket with the cash that you'll need for the next two to three years and keep the rest of your portfolio invested for growth. Every six to 12 months, rebalance by trimming from the best-performing assets to replenish the cash.

Craig Brimhall

Limbs come down in high wind conditions and often bring lines with them. So we will keep a close eye and have extra tree trimming crews on hand.

Michael Lowndes

I expect more of the network airlines to do the same. Now that fuel is an issue, and other economics of the airline industry are pretty difficult, a lot of marginal flights are hard to justify. It's a prudent trimming of marginal routes.

Alan Sbarra

As much as GM plans to raise its product competitiveness by trimming $2.1 billion in buying and supply chain costs every year, we ask for the active support and cooperation of Korean auto parts companies.

Bo Andersson

It simply would not be possible to make these cuts by trimming around the edges.

David Bradley

We needed the weight of the live oaks brought up so they wouldn't split. It took a lot of trimming.

Katherine Brown

It would be wonderful if anyone felt like they wanted to contribute by trimming the hedges, or cleaning, or anything like that—anybody who wants to help can just give me a call and I'll put them to work!

Kathleen Grubb

Last year, someone showed people how to do bonsai trees, how to keep trimming them down. It was very interesting.

Lynne Salisbury

Though we are trimming capital expenditures in 2002, we will continue to invest capital in the right places, namely our major growth drivers, ... It is critical that SBC continue to provide excellent customer service and invest smartly to grow our data, long-distance and wireless revenues.

Edward Whitacre