Sean P. Means, who writes for The Salt Lake Tribune, has compiled a list of 27 critics who have, over the past year or so, been downsized, laid off, bought out or otherwise subjected to a corporate logic of streamlining and syndication.
There were supposed to be at least two more casinos, a plan deferred and downsized when the company that had promised to build one of them announced last month that it was buying the company that had promised to build the other.
He wasn't downsized, but he left and bought a Mr. Handyman franchise.
The once-proud Australian company owned by the late Kerry Packer is being slowly downsized by its German owners, Bauer Media, who bought the company for $500m in 2012.
Rival distributor US Foodservice, a privately held company partly owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, recommends that restaurants buy smaller plates so that customers won't notice downsized portions.
Yuppie couple George Paull Rudd and Linda Jennifer Anistonon) buy a tiny, fabulously expensive Manhattan "micro-loft". George suddenly is downsized out of his job; HBO passes on Linda's depressing documentary about penguins with testicular cancer; and the housing bubble bursts.
Or you can buy the whole slab ($23.99), to carve in the conference room at the downsized holiday party.
"Before, if you bought a piece of gear that was for a woman, it was a downsized men's version and was painted pink," said Kristine Carey, the brand manager for Sierra Designs.
In the last few years American independent cinema has been rocked by seismic changes — including downsized companies and emerging technologies — that have altered this world more profoundly since 1993, the year that the Walt Disney Company bought Miramax Films.
