Word: pared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic power. By easing the oppressive burden of taxation, he hoped to restore incentive to executives and galvanize workers out of the "I'm all right, Jack" mentality that has hobbled productivity for decades. Though he could hardly dismantle the Labor-built welfare state, he did begin to pare some of the benefits and increase the cost of social services...
...utility butcher in a kosher slaughterhouse and saved his money. Then he sent for his 15-year-old childhood sweetheart, married her and moved into a ghetto apartment. He ballooned up to 235 Ibs., so he went to a neighborhood Police Athletic League gym to pare off some weight. There he came under the paternal eye of a sometime fight manager named Yancey Durham, who recalls that Joe looked just like any other fat boy. One thing, however, was different: "He had determination...
...reduced its military presence in Turkey from 27,000 (including dependents) in 1966 to roughly 15,000 today, and will pare down to 10,000 next year. Such conspicuous U.S. facilities as a huge PX and a boisterous enlisted men's club have been moved from downtown Ankara to the suburbs. More than 500 Peace Corps volunteers were withdrawn last year...
...April 1969, when the Administration was just setting out to fight inflation, the consumer price index was rising at an alarming rate of 7.2% a year. As a result of purposeful policies of slowdown since then, the nation's factories have been forced to pare production 5½%, and stock and bond markets have shuddered through their worst crisis in three decades. The jobless rate, which was 3.5% then, jumped last week to 5.8% as the November figures were issued?the highest monthly level since 1963. All together, 4,600,000 Americans are out of work, and 21% of the people...
...international style in which he does everything. When friends urge him to slow down, he reminds them of what the late Sir John Barbirolli once said: "When you're young you should have an excess of everything. If you haven't excess, what are you going to pare off as the years...