"There's nothing in the offing to indicate that there's going to be any layoffs" at Ford, said the U.A.W.'s president, Ron Gettelfinger, although he admitted "absolutely not" knowing of Chrysler's plan to announce cuts after its contract was in place.
Whether that Hollywood ending is in the offing remains to be seen.
The early word, via Politico's Michael Calderone, was that serious staff reductions were in the offing to the tune of 40percentt.
Work-sharing programs and reduced pay could be in the offing to prevent layoffs, according to press reports on emergency measures under negotiation between the government and industry that were broadly confirmed Thursday afternoon by Labor Minister Yoichi Masuzoe.
Also, I'm probably far too excited by the news yesterday that a sequel to Zoolander is in the offing to concentrate.
Sheppard said further observations were in the offing to shed more light on the find.
Reassuringly, though, two other shows are now in the offing, one thought to be studio-based, the other a factual format.
As noted here earlier, the debt deal that's in the offing is said to be a Great and Virtuous Thing not because it results in any tangible benefit for ordinary Americans (other than the fact that, as Wall Street was promised months ago, there will be no default and thus no subsequent destruction of the global economy), but rather because everyone on Capitol Hill hates it, at least a little bit.
So a steady drip of excerpts — from Steve Bannon calling a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russians "treasonous" to the former adviser suggesting that money laundering charges were in the offing — is about to become a flood.
…and a month-long trip to Las Vegas in the offing, I was invited to write a daily diary for the Huffington Post.
