Kathleen Ruane, a spokeswoman, attributed the staff reductions, which come from across the agency, to "the softening economic environment".
In their letters to employees yesterday, Mr. Eisner and Mr. Iger said: "We need to face up to the increasingly pressing challenges of the softening economic environment.
Mr. Lew says he is looking in hard-to-enter markets for companies that can grow even in a softening economic environment.
Sales fell 8.7% to $2.1 billion as increased premium spirits shipments in the United States and strong golf and home products sales in Asia could not fully offset the impact of the U.S. housing slump and the softening consumer environment.
Even changing the color of the paint from dark green to light blue went some way to "softening the environment," she said.
To do that, the hospital tried to soften the environment by muffling sounds with acoustic tiles and cutting the glare of hospital lights with dimmers.
For two of these organisations, Denny recreates elements of motivational presentations made within the company, both of which advocate the anti-hierarchical management system Holacracy, and a flexible, softened working environment that includes quiet spaces and playful elements.
The addition of a co-solvent to the latex leads to a shift of the emission of the probe to longer wavelengths, which is caused by the "softening" of the environment of the probe, as described elsewhere [ 24].
Consumption of RS by humans has been shown to improve the colonic environment by softening stools, increasing faecal bulk, decreasing faecal pH, increasing luminal SCFA concentrations (3) and reducing the accumulation of potentially harmful by-products of protein fermentation (4).
In 1975 about 60,000 shrubs and trees were planted at Newman in an attempt to soften its harsh environment.
