Microsoft is to hand over its display advertising business to AOL and sell some map-generating technology to Uber as it slims down money-losing online operations.
The "transformation" advocated by Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush's first defence secretary, envisaged that the armed forces would be slimmed down and money invested in "smart" weapons, reconnaissance systems and data links.
His then foreign-policy adviser, Condoleezza Rice, declared: "We don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten".Slimmer, not betterUnder the "transformation" envisaged by Mr Bush's defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the army would be slimmed down and money invested in high-tech weapons, reconnaissance systems and data links.
2) Another money slimmer is buying in bulk at places like Costco once a month.
And the more vertically integrated they are—owning hotels and aircraft as well as booking agencies the easier it will be to make money on slim margins.
That exceeds the combined toll of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.Despite that dismal situation, there are three reasons to give the latest pair of campaigners a slim chance of success: money, methods and motivation.
In the early eighties, performance art, fine art, and live music were closely linked, and the chances of anyone in those genres making money were slim, except for a few visual artists, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.
Those pesky grey areas do insist on popping up, such as the (still) little-heralded area of economics – the fact that for many mired in obesity "slim and healthy" costs money they simply don't have.
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