Word: paring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Range v. Money. The exotic-fuel program was a casualty of Defense Secretary McElroy's drive to cut back all "marginal" defense work in an all-out effort to pare down the 1961 budget. It put an end to present hopes for boron-powered planes that would get 40% more energy out of a pound of fuel, thus increase their range (or speed) without adding weight. The Navy has already spent $122 million in the program, the Air Force another $110 million. The first group of 20 B-70s with boron afterburners would have cost $3.5 billion...
Shaping up is a drive not to pare but to share the aid burden with Germany, Britain, France, and even some of the underdeveloped nations. This would be done by creating an International Development Association, dubbed "Ida." Ida was introduced to last fall's meeting of the World Bank (TIME, Oct. 20), but failed to get far because the U.S. did not push it with vigor. Now the U.S. expects to plump hard for Ida at the World Bank's September meeting in Washington, set it up with initial capital of $1 billion (one-third contributed...
...people of this nation made a very serious decision last November," shouted Long. "They did not expect us to simply sit here and vote for the Eisenhower program . . . However, we are told when we consider these bills that in order to make the bills vetoproof, we must pare them down ... to the point where they have about one-quarter of the significance we intended. As a result the bills are 90% Eisenhower bills and 10% Democratic amendments...
...central pair of young lovers--"poor little rich girl" Polly (Alice Therese Burns) and rich little messenger boy Tony (Pare Lorentz, Jr.)--also left more than a little to be desired. Miss Burns, who joined the company just two weeks ago, was sweet but not sufficiently at ease, and her singing voice, while pretty, was sometimes lost in the accompaniment. Mr. Lorentz's voice suffered no such indignity, and was among the best on stage, but his acting was otherwise awkward...
Eighteen crews have been rowing from Newell Boat House, but the number will be cut shortly to about 13, as the various squads pare down for practice over spring vacation. Currently the crews are out on the Charles six days a week...