Word: scrapping
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...Gatineau, Quebec native is just a sophomore, but after his freshman year, he received enough honors and press clippings to fill any veteran's scrap book. And maybe enough to start a second volume...
...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...