Word: parings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Experts question, however, whether bargain-conscious consumers will flock to an improved IBM PC. They feel that Big Blue may have to pare prices even further before many buyers will forsake the inexpensive IBM look-alikes. Boot up and watch the results on the screen of your choice...
...amoral revolving-door world of Washington, it has become just as respectable to lobby as to be lobbied. Ronald Reagan may have come to Washington to pare down the size of the Federal Government, but many of his former top aides have quit to profit off Big Government as influence peddlers. None has been more successful more swiftly than Reagan's former deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver, who may multiply his White House income sixfold in his first year out of government by offering the nebulous blend of access, influence and advice that has become so valued in Washington...
...idea has enjoyed an unusual bipartisan harmony: in statehouses around the country, Democrats and Republicans have joined forces to support legislation that combines the job programs traditionally favored by liberals with efforts to pare the welfare rolls advocated by conservatives. Jo Anne Ross, a Reagan appointee at the Social Security Administration, describes workfare as the "top priority of the Department of Health and Human Services." Says Joseph Califano, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter Administration: "If the kids are in school, then the mother can be working. Nearly everyone accepts that concept...
...wonder then that Fleet Street's proprietors are trying to pare expenses by modernizing plants and cutting work forces. One owner whose efforts foundered is Lord Hartwell, whose family has run the Daily Telegraph (circ. 1.2 million) since 1928. In June Hartwell assembled a $156 million package to pay for both modern printing plants and severance for hundreds of his workers. Faced with a money squeeze this month, Hartwell sold a 35% stake to Hollinger Argus, Ltd., a Toronto-based mining firm owned mostly by Conrad Black, a Canadian tycoon whose holdings range from radio stations to supermarkets. Black...
When Congress was trying to pare the Pentagon budget last spring, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger suddenly discovered a $1.7 billion surplus resulting from miscalculating the estimated inflation rate. That windfall may be only part of the military's reserves. A study by Congress's General Accounting Office has disclosed that the Pentagon may have amassed an extra $37 billion since fiscal 1982 by exaggerating the effects of inflation...