Word: paredes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Budget day" in Parliament is always tinged with politics, a time when the government's Chancellor of the Exchequer tries to sweeten his economic plan for the coming year with at least a spoonful of sugar. But last week, when Chancellor Nigel Lawson arrived at the House of Commons with...
At ABC, which pared 200 from its news staff of 1,470 before Capital Cities Communications took control in early 1986 and eliminated 75 more positions last year, News President Roone Arledge has ordered a re-examination of the division and its $275 million budget. Arledge's request for suggestions...
The House might have found it more difficult to stand by in silence if Ronald Reagan had not pared down the even steeper increases recommended by a presidential commission. Those proposals, initially favored by Reagan, called for raises as high as 74% for Senators and Congressmen, probably well beyond the...
By the end of the show, one has been given rather too much. A wearying amount of second-rate work from the '50s and '60s has been included for its imagery alone, and much of it is Kosmic Komix decor. Some artists, like Ellsworth Kelly, come out looking like resolute...
Meanwhile, the profit squeeze is producing some changes at IBM. It is hoping to reduce its U.S. work force 5%, to 230,000, by the end of next year, mainly through attrition and early-retirement incentives. On a more trifling level, Big Blue has pared spending on such items as...