Word: pared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social circuit. As his old friend and sometime business partner, ex-Actor Roger Smith (Ann-Margret's husband), puts it, "He was just not pleasant to look at." On Smith's advice, Carr underwent an operation that tied off 18 ft. of intestines and helped to pare his 5-ft. 7-in. frame to a relatively sylphlike...
Butz and others have been pressing to plow under the peanut program. To head off that eventuality, Representative Dawson Mathis of Georgia has recently introduced a compromise bill that would reduce acreage allotments by 22.5% and pare support prices slightly. The showdown could come next year when Congress votes on a new general agriculture bill. If the nation's best-known peanut farmer-who has indicated that he favors lower price supports -is then occupying the White House, it will be interesting to see what recommendations come from the Oval Office...
...will fall heavily on the department of social services, which is often accused of inefficiency; last year many millions of dollars in welfare checks were misplaced, lost or stolen. Meanwhile, the city's biggest bureaucracy, the board of education, tried to fend off cutbacks. Ordered by Beame to pare $39 million from its budget, the board offered to reduce school sports programs or subsidized transportation for handicapped students. Said City Budget Director Melvin Lechner: "The board is still playing games...
...figures big in it, passing programs for the President to administer, refusing to change them or kill them when they falter. Still, there is room for presidential action in almost every area of administration. Ford has the power to cut personnel in the major departments, and he promised to pare those agencies. Yet, in his time in office, ten out of the eleven departments have grown larger. A lot of successful administrators could tell him that if he means business about conquering Big Government, he will have to come out from behind the microphone and grapple with the problem himself...
LANG'S WRITING is uneven too. She produces poems impatiently, without turning around to locate and pare away the bland passages. Perhaps her negligence results from the attitude that "Poetry can never be much more than a commentary, At best a breathless summation, for what words, What words existed before their source...