Word: slimmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining two sketches are made of slimmer stuff, but the cast is so good that it gives away Simon's secret: how people guard themselves against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with a jest...
...Slimmer Waistlines. The trend has Government encouragement-indeed prodding. Nancy Harvey Steorts, special assistant for consumer affairs to Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, advanced the idea a year ago in a speech to the National Association of Meat Purveyors and shortly after persuaded the Camelback Inn to test the plan. Since then she has traveled round the country evangelizing smaller portions. She argues that they will help consumers slim their waistlines and cut food bills, bolster restaurant profits by selling additional dinners, and that "the tiniest bit of wasted food cannot be justified when an estimated 1½ billion people...
Gourmet Food. The Government has won interlocking-directorate cases on slimmer evidence. Several years ago, it won a ruling that R.H. Macy & Co., Inc., the New York-based department-store chain, and Safeway Stores, Inc., now the nation's biggest supermarket group, could not share a director because Macy's sold gourmet foods. If the Government can establish a precedent that ties between banks and nonbank companies are subject to the law, and that banks and insurance companies compete, it can be expected to launch more suits. It might contend that the same person cannot serve...
...than in the first quarter of 1974. Conspicuously absent are the usual numbers of discarded major appliances such as stoves, washing machines and refrigerators. New York City's household and construction wastes dwindled by nearly 1 million tons in 1974, and continue to diminish in 1975. Pickings are slimmer in the Atlanta area too. In Fulton County, Ga., because of factory shutdowns, refuse production by industries has slipped 80% in the past eight months...
...Slimmer, more amiable and more relaxed than he used to be, Wilson countered by admitting that things were serious, but not all that bad. Heath, he charged, was selling Britain short. "Britain faces a grave economic crisis, but it is not heading for catastrophe." Wilson compared himself and his government to a soothing family doctor beside the sickbed and sarcastically derided Heath's call for a national coalition as a desperate ploy by a man who knew that he could not get in any other...