There was no one there to trim the fat and wrench it out of its editorial complacency.
GridPoint sells them a network of "smart" devices to help the companies and customers trim the fat out of the electric grid.
To keep both promises, she will have to trim the fat from those parts of the budget that Lula left alone, such as public-sector pensions.
So, in anticipation of its upcoming OS refresh, Redmond's pulling back the curtain on how it managed to trim the fat from its previous printing architecture.
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It does not turn on whether Mr Portillo can really trim the fat he says he has found in the running costs of government, welfare fraud and so on.
Finance professor Joseph Mason of Drexel University says the Wall Street butchers can trim the fat from the least risky securities, but they can't get rid of it all together.
VCs, they say, are in the business of fostering entrepreneurship with start-up money, while buyout firms acquire a company, trim out the fat, then dump it for a handsome profit.
Many seemingly thin people carry more fat than muscle, making them trim on the outside, but fat on the inside.
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Before we swallow your entire buffet, we advise the chefs to trim the menu of its considerable fat content.
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On the cost side, David has little additional fat to trim--operating margins have more than tripled, to 14%, on his watch.
The hope for all three companies is that even as they trim fat, they'll build muscle with new and improved cars and trucks.
Finally, and anecdotally, managers say that the heroic cost-cutting that most businesses undertook during the recession and in the years since has largely run its course, leaving Corporate America with far less fat to trim in order to bolster cash-flow margins.
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