Word: prunes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Akerson will combine the best of the Herald and Traveler staffs, prune the deadwood, plow back savings in production and distribution costs into a new morning paper, which will be called the Herald Traveler. By consolidating and improving the product, Akerson hopes he will have a better chance of competing with the Globe for Boston's advertising dollars...
...attendance is higher than last year; during the winter quarter, 24% of the students made the Dean's list, compared with 21.1% a year ago. Although initially reluctant about compressing their courses into a four-day week, most professors now feel that the new schedule forced them to prune, sharpen and ultimately improve their lectures. Last week the faculty legislative council overwhelmingly voted to continue Wonderful Wednesday for another year...
More Mileage. Even to make these modest increases possible, the President will have to prune heavily in other areas. As Budget Director Charles Schultze sees it, the most likely targets are the Federal Highway program, public-works projects by the Corps of Engineers, other construction spending that can be stretched out or deferred. In the U.S. space program, the effort to put a man on the moon will not be affected, but post-Apollo projects are likely to be slowed down. Few potential economies have been overlooked: the President expects to save $8,000,000 a year with a regulation...
...hero (Von Sydow) is a prune-faced New England parson insuperably identified with deity. Blankly unable to perceive that the islanders are more Christian than the Christians, this religious imperialist with ruthless righteousness throws down their god of love and raises up in its stead a god of wrath. With their religion in ruins, the Hawaiians lie open to all the blessings of civilization: whisky, syphilis and economic exploitation. By film's end the native nation in only 50 years has withered from 400,000 to less than 150,000 souls, and the parson is forced to assume...
...case, Powell insisted that his prerogatives had not been severely curtailed but only slightly "pruned." And, the chairman observed hopefully, "You know what happens to plants when you prune them? They grow even stronger...