From Slashdot:

[Wilson Gray]

"Paper products maker Kimberly-Clark _drove the morale of its
IT-infrastructure group into the ground_, after massive firings and
outsourcings."

Can you really say that? I've always interpreted "run ... into the
ground" as meaning "to do more than is needed or wanted, to carry to
an extreme."

Youneverknow.

Oh, wait! This is "drive," not "run." That's all right, then.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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