The Myth of the Angry White Male What has sprung up is a strange kind of thinking.... Americans are unhappy with their lot. They are feeling insecure layoffs and corporate downsizing have made their future uncertain. Stirred up by talk radio, the theory goes, large numbers of formerly sensible people have embraced 'hate' and 'extremism.' Most of these, according to the media, are white guys. A Washington Post ABC pre-election poll asked voters if they were angry 'about the way the federal government works.' Four out of five white males said no. 62 percent of white men voted for Republican House candidates (38 percent for Democrats in 1994, a ten-point increase from the 1990 midterm elections). But was this special to their gender In 1994 white women voted for Republican House candidates by a 55 to 45 percent majority. Significantly, there isn't single article decrying 'angry white females.'
Quotes about downsizing (16 Quotes)
The first focus is going to be continuing the growth of the business ... focus number two is getting the cost structure aligned with the new demand. I imagine we're going to see another round of downsizing ... I think it's going to be significant.
The very heavy downsizing reported in November is more confirmation that the effects of the Sept. 11 attack on the economy have been substantial. In the eight years we have tracked job cuts data, the downsizing for the last three months has been at levels never before seen.
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
Our action today demonstrates that we're not going to give carte blanche approval to mergers in the defense industry, ... While industry downsizing can be desirable, or even necessary, we will do what it takes to preserve effective competition.
Today's newest breed of employee is the self-manager. These workers are the ones who survived the recent. waves of downsizing, both by seeking and capitalizing, on new opportunities and by learning new skills. Because these employees increasingly possess the skills and technological tools to supervise themselvesindividually or in teamsthey are eliminating the need for layers of management. More executives will soon find their jobs redundant, while self-managing frontline workers become highly valued and virtually fire-proof. Everyone should strive to become self-managed. It is clearly the direction business is taking.
Union Pacific had been downsizing its crews over the past couple of years and, unfortunately, business began to pick up.
It's clear to almost everyone at the station that our new owners are destroying KHON. Their barbaric downsizing plan will severely cripple our ability to present relevant news and public service programming.
But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
As baby boomers flush through the system, they are downsizing into condos and the mills. We will see construction move toward smaller units.
In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing of America' better known as 'the whining of America.' The cause of all the heartache, in the esteemed newspaper of record's view, appears to be heartless corporate chieftains as well as capitalism itself. Americans are moving forward, despite shackles. The shackles I am referring to are not NAFTA, not corporations. They are, instead, the barriers imposed by our own government.
The Clinton Administration has been downsizing our military for the last seven years, and the Kosovo crisis has exposed how our national security is now in real danger.
We give him great credit for raising the priority for education and training. On the other hand, he really did so many things to stick it in the corporate eye, whether or not it was downsizing or siding with the unions in the last two years of the administration,
I get flooded with e-mails from people, and you get a sense of the desperation, ... People have been traumatized by the last 15 years of downsizing and the last few years of recession. Everyone's afraid they'll be next.
The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.
This action day will tell big corporations all across America that we've had enough of their part-timing, their subcontracting, their pension stealing and their downsizing,