Word: pared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other leading players are competent, but usually only that. Pare Lorentz suffers from stereotyping. He has played the part of the clean-cut, pure-hearted hero so often in Pudding shows that it is liable to become second-nature to him, unless something is done soon. He has more lines and worse ones than most of the characters, and only one song that he has a chance with. Rupert Hitzig, playing Lorentz's romantic interest, is also hampered by too much dialogue and a weak singing voice. He tries hard with the one song he has that packs any punch...
...than balanced by the downs-new cars, gasoline, fresh fruits, pork, eggs, movie admissions, women's clothing. Net result, as reported last week by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics: after creeping up to the alltime peak last November, consumer prices slipped downward a little in December to pare the BLS consumer price index two-tenths of a point, to 123.7 (the 1947-49 average: 100). Price forecast for 1959, as most economists see it: renewed upcreep...
Behind the bonuses-for-quitting policy was an effort to pare down the Inquirer's bulging head count-more than" 700 editorial and office employees. After an American Newspaper Guild strike last summer (TIME, June 23; July 21) in which job security on the overstaffed Inquirer was a major issue, management and guild agreed that to anyone who resigned or retired in the last half of 1958 the paper would pay a bonus of one week's pay for every year of employment, plus full severance pay (maximum: 31 weeks). The plan worked. In all, 142 employees quit...
...German A. This new course was quite popular and the "Aural-Oral" (Cornell) method of teaching is proving to be a success. "There is no guarantee that we'll stop at 4 hours a week," a section man said, "but in the event that we don't, we'd pare down the homework...
COMMUTER SUBSIDY will be tried by Philadelphia in six-month test. City council will give $160,000 to the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads. In return, rails will increase commuter trains to and from suburban Chestnut Hill, and pare one-way fare from...