Rather than just hand out a severance package with the pink slip, Foley Hoag gave Dineen an option.

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The newest teachers get the pink slip, no matter how good they are.

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Worse yet, some employees have had to train the overseas organizations that were taking over their roles, getting the pink slip upon completion.

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Did Arianna Huffington just give Arrington the pink slip?

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But not everyone is sharing in the stability with pockets of pink-slip pain despite the overall good news.

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In the two years since this recession began, too many members of our American family have felt the gut punch of a pink slip.

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But faced with the resultant soul-searching, some recent pink-slip recipients are refusing to be casualties of the latest recession.

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Then the dot-com bust hit, leaving Kurth with a pink slip and no idea what to do next.

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Then came the first quarter of 2008, the market turbulence that washed out Bear Stearns--and a pink slip.

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In the span of a few months, one in five American autoworkers got a pink slip.

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