Word: slimmed
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Indeed, the next Princess of Wales appears to be everything the Prince has been searching for in a wife-tall (5 ft. 9 in., 2 in. shorter than he), slim and long-legged-the type he has said he favors. She is also British, another preferred attribute and one that will make her the first citizen to marry the heir to the throne since 1659.* Like the Prince, she is an athlete: an avid bicyclist, swimmer and skier, although she does not share the royal family's passion for horses. Says she: "I fell off a horse and lost...
Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, told the parents that the economy will improve during the next four years whether or not President Reagan has any economic policy. The chances are slim that OPEC will raise oil prices as drastically as it has in the last four years, Eckstein said...
Reagan believes profoundly that a swollen Government has now become the destroyer of prosperity, fanning inflation through endless deficits and strangling economic growth through excessive taxes. So, from now on, Government must choose to slim itself down. It must spend less, tax less, regulate less, trim rather than expand social programs and turn over responsibility for many of them to states and cities. Above all, it must stop trying to guide the economy and trust the energies of private workers and businessmen to pull the nation out of the stagflation swamp...
...likelihood of raising - or diverting - the necessary revenue is considered particularly slim in cities and states where the problem is most pressing. Nevertheless, Burger's message has a powerful symbolic importance, all the more so be cause he is not the only high federal official who is calling for a new attack on crime. At his confirmation hearings last month, Attorney General William French Smith said that the Justice Department would make violent crime its top priority, in contrast to the Carter Administration's focus on white-collar crime...
...return from some nasty trips (in more ways than one) of their own to the friendly confines of the IAB for last-chance cracks at the very tough Princeton (Friday at 7:30) and UPenn (Saturday at 7:30) squads. While their chances of winning the Ivies now are slim, the hoopsters would sure love to play the spoilers role...