downsizer

He stars as a corporate downsizer, living an isolated life, with a dream of collecting 10 million air miles.

And the general economic woes can also potentially throw a spanner in the downsizer works.

George Clooney plays a corporate downsizer who loves being away on business because nothing awaits him at home.

But when a downsizer gets involved, the grim announcement isn't coming from their manager or chief executive - it's from a stranger.

An ideal first home or downsizer.

Downsizer is a virtual community, run on a not-for-profit basis, which describes itself as "a resource for people who want to live more sustainably".

Like most everything else in Obama World, from health care to closing Guantanamo, reality seems to be the ultimate teacher and downsizer.

The downsizer, for one, as opposed to the downsized; nobody, for another, particularly when it comes to the outrageously expensive wines.

A lock-up and leave is ideal for the downsizer, and it's worth investing in a property which won't require further adaptations as you age.

Mr. Checchi was not the first businessman-candidate whose history as a job-cutting downsizer came back to haunt him.

Rural Dorset is downsizer heaven.

But a downsizer rebate would be one change that benefits both the property-rich baby boomer generation and those stationary second-time buyers.

George Clooney stars as a corporate downsizer who travels America firing employees and racking up air miles only to then face redundancy himself.

The 48-year-old earns his second lead actor nomination as Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizer who begins to question his isolated life.

He was best known as a turnaround specialist and professional downsizer, although it was later discovered that his reputed turnarounds were elaborate frauds.

The story is centered on corporate "downsizer" Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) and his travels.

A downsizer and a union buster who refers to his trusted assistant as the Terminator, this guy doesn't need lunch, this carnivore devours entire companies.

As an aggressive corporate downsizer who has streamlined the industry's method of eliminating employees via video conference, Kendrick is both arresting and heartbreakingly vulnerable.

A profile salutes pathological downsizer "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap for having the guts to fire workers in order to turn companies around.

Mr. Peterson did not run as a slash-and-burn budget cutter, though, but as a "thoughtful downsizer of the Federal Government."

Jason Reitman's Up in the Air, starring George Clooney as a corporate downsizer, was named best film.

Clooney fits effortlessly into the role of Ryan Bingham, a "corporate downsizer" whose job it is to fire people as smoothly and painlessly as possible.

CONSIDER the most unlovable creature in the American corporate world, a professional downsizer.

Clooney's character Ryan Bingham is a "corporate downsizer", PR-speak for somebody who flies around the country sacking people.

The 32-year-old son of "Ghostbusters" director-producer Ivan Reitman receives his second best director Oscar nomination for the dramedy about a corporate downsizer.