Word: trim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company's gross, eventually will bring in more than 50% of it. But he says: "The restaurants will always remain the hallmark of our quality." He personally intends to see that they do. And he has his own special means for keeping his waistline in fighting trim for all those calorie-loaded inspection trips: when not on the road or entertaining guests, he usually lunches at his desk on buttermilk and crackers...
Slimming Down. In Nebraska. Colorado and North Carolina, voters approved plans to trim the gingerbread off woefully rococo judicial systems. North Carolina's Governor Terry Sanford led his state's fight for court reform, declared that the present system contains "glaring evils"-among them, the fact that most of the nearly 900 justices of the peace get no pay for hearing a case unless they convict the defendant...
...million that they pumped last year into the real estate empire of Manhattan's William Zeckendorf, 57, his new British partners extracted one condition: "From now on, anything we don't like won't happen." In response, aggressive Bill Zeckendorf, who had been keeping in fighting trim by agilely staying one step ahead of his creditors, earnestly promised to indulge in "less shooting from the hip." Longtime students of the Zeckendorf saga wondered just how long Bill Zeckendorf could stay away from grandiose real estate projects...
Despite the impression they created last Saturday, I still think the Tigers are a reasonably good team, and certainly good enough to trim Yale, by around two touchdowns...
...married him in 1939 after he divorced No. 3. Liu's wife, Wang Kuang-mei, is also his fourth. The first was killed during China's civil war, the other two were divorced. Some 25 years his junior (Liu is in his early 60s), she is dark. trim, and, judging by her appearance in a gown of opulent velvet, clothes-conscious...