Word: paring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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permitted to finess the elementary survey course and pare their graduates thoroughly. In these fields there is no reason why an exceptional student should not be permitted to finess the elementary survey course and plunge into more advanced work during his freshman year...
...With manufacturers' inventories at a record $45 billion, some manufacturers have started to pare down. Ford is warning its suppliers to buy raw materials only three months in advance of production, instead of five...
From Denver last week, President Eisenhower sternly ordered agency heads in Washington to "take every possible step" to pare expenditures during fiscal 1954. As news dispatches told it, the directive was aimed at avoiding a special session of Congress to lift the $275 billion debt ceiling which Congress refused to raise three weeks ago. Actually, Eisenhower was looking farther ahead: "You will be expected to make substantial reductions in your requests ... for the fiscal year...
DESPITE the Administration's drive for freer trade, the Department of Agriculture has decided that it must ask for a boost in tariffs on wool imports until it can find some way to pare down the 100 million-lb. domestic surplus the Government had to buy under its support program...
Crossing Paris, the first and longest tale, is by Marcel Ayme, a deft ironist who likes to pare the French mind and character like an apple. This time, in a story which takes place during the German occupation, he cuts a little deeper. Two thugs, Martin and Grandgil, are hired by a black-marketeer to tote four valises filled with meat across the city. Grandgil, a newcomer to the racket, is supposed to take orders from Martin, but right from the start he shows a shocking lack of honor. By threatening to expose the black-marketeer, he gets...