The financial sector is getting leaner and smarter.
The bank is getting leaner, too, as part of the broad "New BAC" cost-cutting initiative, which Mr. Thompson declared to be "on track".
For one thing, his music is getting leaner, less dependent on the explosive payoff that used to define his choruses.
"That's the escape valve". Viviano said the hiring freeze is tied to hiring a systems specialist to examine district operations "with an eye toward improving efficiency and cost reductions". "What we're trying to do is get lean and work smarter," he said.
"Inventories are getting lean and prices are climbing, giving consumers reasons to sit back".
After a year of yawning losses at the company, employees lamented that times were getting lean.
"[T]he fat and lazy seem to be getting lean and mean very quickly and, as a result, 2017 is setting up for a huge year for enterprise tech IPOs," Daniels explained to TechCrunch.
Which is why marketing lunches are getting leaner too.
But even on the continent times are getting leaner.
For more than a decade, start-ups have been getting leaner and meaner.
