Companies are very concerned about giving mixed messages: if they're retrenching, it's difficult for them to be making high-level presentations to MBA students.
"If consumers are retrenching, it's quite possible that Amazon's gaining share because they're the low-price player and they're pressing that advantage, but there's a trade-off between margins and growth for retailers," Mr. Rohan said.
When the box business left the U.S. for China in the nineties, that was a sure sign that the larger fish in the American ecosystem were migrating as well, and now that the Chinese box business is retrenching, it's a grim sign for the manufacturing hubs in southern China.
He had the vision of what we could achieve". Tappan, who jokingly says optimism is in his genes, said that at first he thought Fluor could simply retrench as it had in past down cycles, surviving by making layoffs and waiting 18 to 24 months for a rebound.
But if it retrenches too much, it will lose political support for the rest of the economic reform.
The Rockville, Maryland company is retrenching as it girds for the long and expensive clinical trials process.
Yes, we saw more people of color lead prestigious films in the past year the box office reflected it but there's still been a conservative retrenching when it comes to who ought to lead a film, and that's been motivated in large part by the global audience.
Suddenly their support for disarmament was reduced to smoke and mirrors behind which the nuclear-weapons industry could stage a strategic fallback to a position where it could retrench, secure in the knowledge it occupy it in perpetuity.
The timing has never been more critical as Turkey's neighborhood seems to be imploding and it faces internal challenges that it has never faced before while America's global leadership is being challenged in every possible arena and its citizens look to retrench much like it did after World War One, whose centennial both nations are commemorating.
