Word: pare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sales figures suggest that buyers are becoming more discriminating and value conscious. When General Motors in mid-March ran special sales contests, during which dealers pare prices, sales increased dramatically. While total new-car sales were down for the first six months of the 1978 model-year, sales of compact and subcompact cars increased by 13%. The star performer at General Motors last month was the boxy Chevette; its sales were up 84%, compared with a year ago. At Ford, Mustang sales rose 14%, while the new Fairmont is a stellar seller. Ford's lacocca puts himself...
Restrain Social Security Benefits. They are scheduled to rise fast in the years ahead. By trimming the benefits, the nation can also pare the scheduled increases in Social Security payroll taxes...
...Breastroke--1. Mark Hemmerle, Drexel. 2:08.14; 2. Chuck Hector, Princeton, 2:09.38; 3. Tuomo Kerola, Harvard, 2:09.78; 4. Kent Whitaker, Dartmouth, 2:10.38; 5. Michael Pare, Columbia, 2:10.66; 6. Kelley Hopkins, Colgate...
More broadly, computers enable the patient to receive a health profile at far lower cost than previously possible; analyze vast amounts of blood; and, by systematizing information about the patient, cut down his hospital stay and pare both institutional and patient costs...
...creation. This centerpiece of the tax program is the most likely to be deferred. Yet Carter will probably attempt to raise taxes on income earned abroad by subsidiaries of U.S. corporations and on export earnings of companies that set up domestic international sales corporations. He may try to pare deductions for gasoline taxes, sales taxes and medical expenses. He has shown no sign yet of backing down from his effort to dry up the celebrated "three-martini" business lunch by forbidding at least part of it to be deducted...