Word: paring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steve Klass and James Hull play the back room politicians superbly, and Pare Lorentz and David Seil, as Senators Lyons and Jones, show why the South is more than down...
...high-volume, low-price operation. But while it is rough on retailers, it is fine for the U.S. consumer, who at long last has learned to call the tune. In the long run, it may also prove just the right tonic for U.S. businessmen, who will be forced to pare their soaring distribution costs-which are often equal to production costs-down to realistic levels...
...steel industry considers recession a dirty word, says flatly that it is undergoing a "mild cyclical adjustment" which is now stabilizing. Production may go down some more, but steelmen expect consumption to remain at current levels as businessmen live off inventories. The oil industry is also cutting back to pare its ultralarge, 283 million-bbl. inventory of oil stocks...
...move, said railroaders, is part of a gentlemen's agreement with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which runs 20 Baltimore-New York round trips daily. In return for B. & O.'s stepping off the tracks, the Pennsy will pare down its own passenger service on the Baltimore-Washington and Cleveland-Detroit routes, where it is a major competitor...
...singly. Then, in the horrified words of a local police officer, who witnessed the scene, they would "hack his knee or his Achilles tendon so that he would drop, then slowly, neatly, talking to him all the while and wishing him a pleasant journey to Hell, proceed to pare his head with a knife until he fell dead...