Word: paring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many years the United States Post Office has sought to pare away some of its perennial indebtedness by decreasing the flow of love notes, letters to grand-children, inquiries after health and other worthwhile pieces of first-class mail while fostering the insidious growth of gaudy packets addressed to "Occupant Apartment 3A," subscription come-ons to magazines that die even before the enclosed blank can be returned, plastic Christmas cards from liquor stores and similar abominations that have been assigned the hubristic rank of third-class mail...
...shipping men scornfully dubbed Oetker's armada the "baking powder fleet," but through astute management his fleet of 67 tankers and freighters has kept busy without resorting-as some German shipping companies have-to running Soviet-bloc cargoes for Castro. Characteristically, Oetker got into the insurance business to pare his premiums, built his Condor companies into one of Germany's biggest full-line insurance firms...
...cries of "betrayal" from Sydney and Ottawa, Macmillan's men reply that Britain can best lead the Commonwealth from within the Common Market, where she can help to lower tariffs, pare discriminatory internal taxes, and channel Europe's fast-growing investment funds to underdeveloped nations. The only alternative to Britain's membership, as Macmillan, Heath & Co. see it, would be to relinquish all claims to big-power status and resign herself, like 18th century Venice, to continued isolation and impoverishment...
...Like the alcoholic who takes his little glass in the morning," the old man once said, "I take up my brushes." Though frail, Georges Braque still takes up his brushes each morning in his Paris studio near the Pare de Montsouris. He may work standing for a while; more often, he sits grandly on a divan and calls for his brushes and colors like a surgeon calling for his scalpels and clamps. This week he will be 80-the same age as his ebullient former partner, Pablo Picasso...
...real, and with sharpening competition to be expected both at home and abroad, few experts foresee any early return of the fat and easy profit margins of the years immediately after World War II. Some economists even see a virtue in the profits squeeze, because it forces businessmen to pare fat and seek new efficiencies. Says President George H. Ellis of Boston's Federal Reserve Bank: "There should be a squeeze. In most competitive economies, there is a profits squeeze. It is a fact of life...