Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scrap began when Washington threatened to add a 200% tariff (thus tripling prices) on white wine imported from Europe -- unless the E.C. agrees by Dec. 5 to extraordinary cuts in subsidies that encourage production of oilseeds. In the U.S. view, these subsidies unfairly limit export sales of American soybeans. But France is trying to stall any such reductions until after parliamentary elections in March. President Francois Mitterrand's Socialists face defeat as it is, but the anger of farmers with reduced incomes might cost them even more votes and seats than expected. Reasoning: it's better for a successor center...
...addition, Meyer outlined a clear schedulefor asset allocation, known as a policy portfolio,to cover the next several years. And he announcedplans to scrap the widely used standard againstwhich HMC had long measured its performance--aconventional "vanilla portfolio" of stocks andbonds--in favor of a new system of internalbenchmarks based on the policy portfolio...
...Campbell's book Diana is the schemer and Charles the hapless one: "She knew he wasn't a scrap interested in her, but she also saw that he was vulnerable." Diana got herself invited to royal occasions by making friends with Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Princess Margaret's daughter. Whatever the reality was, Diana expected that when they were married, her husband would devote a great deal of time to her. She was cruelly disappointed. Charles was chilly, his routine masculine and inflexible...
...Aerospace Workers added to the election-year pressure on Bush, insisting that if the $5 billion sale is killed, nearly 40,000 aerospace jobs will be lost. Already facing major losses as defense spending is reduced, the aerospace workers are pressing Bush to save them "from the human scrap heap...
...people at RCA, along with the Presley estate, have long proved themselves experts in recycling Presley material: every scrap, jot and studio aside seems already to have been preserved and released in one form or another. It's a surprise then to discover that so much of the scarce material organized here under the title "Rare and Rockin' " is fresh. Even excerpts from a press conference in which Elvis explains his Army ribbons are beguiling. The sound quality has been spruced up to a nice funky shine, and the cuts are ordered chronologically, so there is a clear sense...