Word: paring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dropped from $14 per bbl. a year ago to $12 now, largely because premium charges for high quality and other factors have been removed. Libya has recently been forced to trim up to 29e off its exceedingly high basic rate of $11.86, and Abu Dhabi has had to pare 380 from the $11.38 that it charged for its best lower-sulfur fuel...
...General Congregation must come to decisions on many other issues, including whether to pare down members' life-styles and draw institutional assets into separate funds so that the order can better reflect the spirit of poverty. But last week's vote alone makes the meeting a turning point for the Society of Jesus, and it presents Pope Paul with a delicate political problem. He has the power to reject any action of the General Congregation, including its decision on the fourth vow. But that would produce dangerous new tension between the Pope and the Jesuits who are sworn...
Shrinking Desire. Consumer Pollster Albert Sindlinger, who for years has accurately predicted trends in the auto industry, sent out early warning signals to the companies to pare prices on new small cars-to no avail. Says Sindlinger: 'They totally misjudged the market. They overproduced and overpriced...
...EFFECT OF these essentially irrelevant comments, if HEW pays attention to them, would be to narrow the regulations' scope, and to pare down HEW's enforcement ability. Once again, then, whether Harvard's suggestions are valid depends on whether Harvard can be trusted to implement Title IX without close supervision. In a third group of comments, those which claim that the regulations "do not provide sufficient safeguards for women," Harvard seeks to show that it can be trusted, and that indeed it is in a position to give advice on the matter. One of these comments objects to the prohibition...
...with determination, reduce its dependence on the cartel's oil. America now burns 16 million bbl. of oil daily. Of that, 6.3 million bbl. a day-or 35% of the nation's oil consumption and 18% of its total energy-flows from abroad. If the U.S. could pare its oil demands by 1 million bbl. a day -a mere 3% of all the energy that it uses-the benefits might be considerable, not only for America but for the rest of the world as well...