The cuts, which will affect hourly and salaried workers, are part of a two-year $100 million cost-reduction plan initiated in 1999 to make the company more competitive.
A recovery plan, initiated last summer, calls for selling off noncore businesses and assets, and extricating the company from its labyrinthine joint ventures in the biotechnology industry.
Although the legislation does not speak of a "takeover" like the original Camden plan initiated two years ago by Gov. Christie Whitman, it is close to the same thing.
Fulfilling a plan initiated by his predecessor, Thomas Hoving, Mr. de Montebello has done the Met and the city — and everybody — incalculable good by pushing through this project, which in so many ways goes against the grain.
He was reared on a farm in Dorset that was the centerpiece of a postwar rural reinvigoration plan initiated by his great-uncle, Balfour Gardiner, a composer who gave up writing music in the 1920's, and his father, Rolf.
If a plan initiated by the chief is successful, his tribe's fortunes will be transformed by an asset he and the Brazilian government believe holds great promise for the global pharmaceutical industry: the slime from a poisonous tree frog.
It's the result of adherence to a five-year plan initiated in 2010 by Mr. Naidu and Ms. Johnson; a consultant, paid for by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, worked with the company to put the plan into place.
On November 22, however, the UN General Assembly's Human Rights Committee overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on Syria to implement a peace plan initiated by the Arab League and demanding an immediate end to government violence against its citizens.
The most famous and frequently cited program was conducted at Perry Elementary School in Ypsilanti, Mich., during the 1960s, where the teachers focused on a creative process in which low-income children were encouraged to plan, initiate and discuss their learning activities.
Meanwhile, a Syrian state newspaper argues that the peace plan initiated by special envoy Kofi Annan has been sabotaged by Washington as part of a conspiracy against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
