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...biggest hurdle for congressional budgetmakers is domestic spending hikes, which the Senate set at $12.5 billion and the House at $28.9 billion; Reagan requested a $6.4 billion reduction. House Democrats privately concede that they are willing to pare back if the Republicans promise to help pass a compromise budget on the House floor...
Five Harvard officials recently took issue with President Reagan's proposed 1985 budget, signing a New York Times advertisement that urged the President and Congress to pare down defense spending and thus reduce the federal deficit...
Moviegoers must now trek to the "cine-pare," not "le drive-in," and listen to the "balladeur," a rechristened Walkman French attacks on franglais are by now virtually de rigueur, but the recent assault appears stricter. A court has already leveled a fine of $200 on the Paris Opera, which allowed an American musical using a Paris theater to print its program entirely in English...
...BEST WAY TO adapt a play so rooted in its niche of history would be to pare down its length. Full of intrigues, setbacks, and mistaken identities, the tragedy seems almost comical, and certainly cannot sustain either the weight of seriousness or the burden of a three-hour-long performance. As written, the plot goes out of its way to lead all the characters into vengeance's grasp: secondary scenes--like the one which shows the death of the wife of Antonio, a nondescript lord--are tortuous and hinder the rest of the play...
...magazine's board decided to pare down in order to stress better quality and to increase its emphasis on short fiction, President Erie-Steven Gutienez '84 said yesterday...