Word: prune
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic advisers considered too costly?the President gave in to the regulators. The Administration has won a few mostly symbolic pledges from some steel, aluminum-and automakers to limit price rises and executive salary increases. More dangerously, labor has refused to promise wage restraint. Meany calls Bosworth, a prune pleader for a wage hold-down, "that skinny redheaded...
...personified by Alan Strang (Peter Firth), a pretty, blond youth whose sexual desire for horses drives him to blind them; sanity takes the form of Dysart (Richard Burton), a repressed psychiatrist charged with curing Alan of his antisocial passion. In this confrontation between a virile equussexual and an impotent prune, can there be any doubt as to who will emerge the moral victor...
Lance's record as a borrower The comptroller's report notes that Lance never received preferential interest rates for the loans he received from correspondent banks. He paid as much as 1% above the prune lending rate, a fairly standard figure for major clients. The report does indicate, however, that the banks did not always find Lance an ideal customer. Manufacturers Hanover, for example, sent him eight letters seeking verification of the collateral supporting his loan (mostly shares in the Atlanta bank). At one point, the New York bank demanded that he increase the collateral. Another time...
Videla is determined to wrestle down the unions' "political power and abnormal privileges." Toward that goal, Martinez de Hoz is trying to prune the mammoth state-run industrial sector, a Perón-era albatross that produces less than 10% of Argentina's G.N.P.-and much of the government's debts and deficits. State enterprises employ an estimated 300,000 unnecessary workers. But the Economy Minister's plans to cut bloated staff and sell losing businesses to private firms have run into strong union opposition. When Videla raised the work week of Buenos Aires' huge...
...restoring Mexicans' confidence in their own economy. To do so, he may have to conciliate industrialists and foreign lenders by trimming Echeverria's spending projects and undertaking a deflationary program of austerity. Although he has seldom revealed his plans, López Portillo will undoubtedly try to prune Mexico's huge, corruption-riddled civil service. Over the objections of union leaders, he may try to impose new ceilings on wages. He is also in a position to achieve vitally needed tax reforms stymied in the confrontation atmosphere created by Echeverria...