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...impression that one such possibility might be similar to the proposal that Nitze explored with his Soviet counterpart, Yuli A. Kvitsinsky, last summer. According to that scenario, later rejected by both Washington and Moscow, the U.S. would base 75 cruise missiles in Western Europe while the Soviet Union would pare its arsenal...
...council agreed in leas than 15 minutes to hire a pare time office manager for less than $6000 and require a typewriter and answering machines for the group's yet-to-be established office...
...industrywide sales have slumped, automakers have redoubled efforts to pare overhead costs. Corporate staffs have been reduced, inefficient plants closed, and new manufacturing methods introduced. By far the most stringent cost-cutter is Chrysler, which has cut its work force from 157,958 to about 75,000 since 1978 as its annual sales have dropped from 1.1 million to 730,000. The result: after four years of losses and near-bankruptcy in 1979, the company made $258.6 million during the first six months of 1982, and could wind up in the black for the entire year. Even so, Chrysler...
Said Rivlin of Congress's frustrating battle to pare spending: "The whole struggle has been terribly discouraging. Congress's tax-increase and spending-cut actions have been considerable, but at the same time, the recovery has been weaker than had been assumed in the spring, and as a result, revenues have tended to be lower. As a consequence, the best that can be said is that the deficit has leveled off from an increase that otherwise would have happened...
...presidential travel sometimes stuns even Presidents-including Ronald Reagan. Before his summer vacation last year, Reagan demanded that his aides explain why nearly 200 Government employees had to be flown to California to stand by while he rode horses and chopped wood at his ranch. No way to pare the list, the aides replied: wherever he goes, the President must be in instant communication with any part of the world, guarded round the clock and accompanied by an ever growing press corps...