Word: pared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final decisions on spending will be taken by Congress. During his term, Carter made sporadic attempts to reduce outlays. He offered new legislation to force hospitals to curb Medicare costs, a plan to trim student-loan programs and even a quixotic proposal to pare Social Security payments. But these efforts were all stillborn on Capitol Hill. Laments one Carter lieutenant, looking back on the experience: "Just about every time we went to Congress, we got massacred...
...dire economic straits, Yigal Hurvitz, 62, who resigned as Finance Minister on Sunday, seems to thrive on political notoriety. Month after month, he had focused attention on himself in the Israeli Cabinet by challenging virtually every discretionary item of the government's planned 1981 budget. His goal: to pare public spending, hold unemployment to a tolerable 41/2% to 5% and, somehow, simultaneously bring the annual 140% inflation rate down to double digits by the end of the year. Understandably, he was not always thanked for his tightfistedness. However, Hurvitz had won many of his economic battles with his colleagues...
...would, among other things, freeze $6 billion of Iranian funds deposited in West German banks, cut off all shipments of technology and spare parts to Iranian industry and further pare the already skeletal West German diplomatic mission in Tehran. Remarked a senior chancellery official in Bonn: "This should go a long way toward backing the U.S. even if our other West European allies do not necessarily follow." Britain is ready to join the West Germans in imposing trading sanctions and further reducing its embassy staff...
...achieve full employment and equal access to education, housing and health care will we be able to resolve our severe inequities. These goals are attained by a massive reordering of national priorities, not by reallocating the relatively small amount of money which might be available if we were to pare the wages of draftees...
...middle-income families. But all these proposed $9.7 billion budget reductions are not likely to pass Congress. Says one senior budget maker: "The chances of getting rid of that money for beekeepers are zero, but this is exactly the kind of thing we must get rid of to pare down the budget...