Word: paring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More Sales? The Germans were not alone in their demands for an easing of restrictions on trade with the Red bloc. Britain and Japan want to pare down the lengthy list of goods prohibited to Red China, allow it to buy the same Western nonstrategic items that Russia does, e.g., chemicals, electrical goods, tractors. They argue that cutting off Red China from the West drives it closer to Russia, that anyhow Red China gets certain embargoed Western items through Russia...
Congress, in its attempts to slash the President's record Budget, is cutting some impractical corners. Since the legislators find it difficult to pare down the large items, they are trying to whittle away lesser expenditures. These cuts seriously impair the functions of the agencies concerned. While the Post Office won its battle, the Weather Bureau now finds itself in danger. Its request for funds should not be sacrificed to the insignificant savings which would result from such cuts...
...brother from out west was played by Hank Holmes, his wife by Fred Mueller. Hank was both convincing and delightful, while Fred provided a marvelous caricature of a loud, if not rip-roaring, midwestern wife. Pare Lorentz capably handled a none too sparkling part as Ivy's poor lover Miguelo. The same was true of John Stimpson as Miguelo's friend, Manuel. The third of the Spanish trio, Mona, was given a sultry, slippery, outrageously funny rendition by Don Rabuzzi...
...just sent to Congress called for expenditures of $71.8 billion in 1958, nearly $3 billion more than in fiscal 1957 (ending next June 30). It was a balanced budget, but the estimated surplus, $1.8 billion, was too narrow to permit tax cuts. Ike proposed to use it to pare a chip off the $270-odd billion national debt...
...ride the train himself; he just liked to set his watch by the train's noon whistle. Regulatory agencies know that every road has similar lines that should be eliminated so that the money saved could be used to improve service elsewhere. But they are reluctant to pare the costs, because they want railroads as a stand-by service in case weather makes plane and car travel impossible. Sighs one railroader: "What we are is foul-weather friends...