Ms. MERRITT: Although I don't know that I would ever want my own mug shrink-wrapped on the bus or on the car or on the bicycle, whatever - no matter what way we're traveling.
It found that the plant was saving money by placing the shrink-wrapped products on inexpensive pallets.
But this is a particular skill that I have never seen anyone learn from a book, an article, or from a shrink-wrapped kit sold on a late-night infomercial.
These are reducing returns earned by banks as well as forcing them to shrink their balance-sheets and cut back on trading.
Forced by regulators to shrink after losing tens of billions on collateralised-debt obligations, it is well on the way to shedding 40% of its assets.
But at Ford, new product development marketing manager Lew Echlin says the company plans to shrink the number of free-floating options available on its Focus compact car lineup for the 2013 model year because the numbers say it makes sense.
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Tobias Adrian and Hyun Song Shin have shown that the balance sheets of financial firms that mark their assets to market grow and shrink based on changes to the level of short-term interest rates.
Aside from the F-22, the Administration wants to cut missile defenses, shrink the Navy and over the long-run reduce spending on defense, when the demands on American forces are greater than ever.
The look on his face when I recently debuted a shrink-wrap tight dress told me so.
Does he shrink, rebuild, re-index and run other maintenance utilities on your databases like you should be doing?
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The problems will shrink from now on as the less generous lending of 1999-2000 works its way through the system.
Abbey's new strategy is to turn its back on diversification to sell the junk bonds, train- and aircraft-leasing businesses and so on and shrink to its origins as a boring old British mortgage bank.
He said he supported plans by RBS - which is 84% owned by the government - to shrink its investment bank into a business much more focused on UK companies.
Every piece of equipment heading to the island is first staged on the mainland, inspected, then sealed in white plastic shrink-wrap to make it look like a creation by the artist Christo.
Some counter that the hours gap would shrink if employers offered more family-friendly policies, such as flexible hours and easier on-off ramps for moving in and out of the workforce.
While wireless headset manufacturers battle one another to shrink their wares until they completely disappear into your ear canal, organizers of the Switched-On London lighting festival (not named, unfortunately, after the excellent column by NPD's Ross Rubin) have taken the opposite tack: for one week in February, they've transformed the famous Tower Bridge into the world's largest Bluetooth device (narrowly edging out the PS3).
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Their goal: convince skeptical consumers that the shrink-wrapped sirloin tips in the supermarket aren't artery-clogging commodities mass-produced on factory farms, but wholesome meals turned out with great care by hard-working families.
Given better-than-anticipated progress on strengthening the euro zone's rescue fund and governance, credit would shrink by just 0.6% in 2012 and the euro area could grow this year.
For the 12, 000-seat basketball arena, architects at Wilkinson Eyre devised a rapidly erected steel-frame system shrink-wrapped with a white PVC skin, the curved steel stretchers forming a pattern of alternating diagonal projections on the outside.
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Republicans seeking to shrink the size of government oppose any higher taxes and argue the Democratic plan of allowing rates to increase on higher-income Americans will stunt economic growth.
Bankia - which lost 3bn euros last year and expects to lose 19bn euros this year - said it would shrink itself by some 50bn euros by selling assets to Sareb, and also by cutting back on lending and by selling off investments in Spanish industry, including a 12% stake in International Airlines Group, the owner of Spanish national airline Iberia and of British Airways.
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