Word: paring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tional City Bank. In Ottawa last week, parliamentary hearings began on a bill designed to limit the size of banks in which non-Canadians have more than a 25% interest. Mercantile, as it happens, would be the only one affected; under the new rules, it would be forced to pare its assets to $200 million or find new Canadian owners...
...Passes. For himself, Capote had selected a 39? domino mask from F.A.O. Schwarz; it was bested for economy by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 82-year-old daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. She had shopped around and got a similar mask for 4? less. But few of the other ladies tried to pare expenses; some spent $600 and more for their extravaganzas. Rose Kennedy picked out several masks in case she changed her mind, finally settled on an elaborate domino with towering egret plumes. Mrs. Henry Ford II came wearing a white organdy butterfly...
...million in sales) nor Lever's 44% ($85 million) constituted any sort of monopoly. Then, in a curious bit of reasoning, the commission criticized both companies for spending too much on competitive sales promotions, urged that the regulatory Board of Trade require both P. & G. and Lever to pare 40% from their advertising and promotion budgets, and pass the savings along to the British housewife...
...cure to psychosis in the chemistry of the brain. While science may never develop a foolproof psychiatric Geiger counter or a cerebral "Pap smear" for spotting every psychotic in advance, there is no doubt that far more can be done within the resources of the Great Society to pare the danger of sudden, irrational murder...
...below coach rates. That blue-yonder experiment helped to attract so many customers that Continental increased its revenues from $63 million in 1961 to last year's $117 million, and other lines quickly followed with an odd lot of special rates. Last week Continental was trying to pare fares again. It asked Civil Aeronautics Board permission to introduce nighttime "adult stand-by fares" one-third cheaper than the economy fare. For any passenger willing to wait for a seat on a space-available basis starting at 9:35 p.m., a one-way Chicago-Los Angeles ticket, for example, would...