Word: trim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year or more, can indeed be rugged competitors. Even so, the company's top management is known to take a somewhat protective attitude toward competition. IBM makes such profits (last year it earned $651 million after taxes on revenues of $5.3 billion) that it could trim prices and still do well. But IBM knows only too well that a general computer price cut might drive some smaller competitors to the wall. IBM is also sensitive about its size, and about the fact that the Justice Department has long had it under examination. Beginning in January, Tom Watson...
...Music to Trim the Tree...
...leading a demonstration against a U.S. arms shipment, Madame Binh is a well-traveled veteran of the Communist diplomatic circuit. She has represented the N.L.F. at conferences in Moscow, Peking and Cairo, and at a congress of the Women's Union of France in Paris earlier this year. Trim and articulate, her black hair swept back, Madame Binh has skillfully smiled her way through receptions and carefully stuck to the N.L.F. line when confronted by curious Western newsmen who hang on her every move. L'Express described her as "a sort of Joan of Arc of the rice...
...expressly intended to ease year-to-year shortages. If the deficit exceeds the relatively meager limits of the departmental balance, however, Dean Ford will probably ask the Corporation treasurer for a loan. Presumably, if the deficits continued, the Faculty would have to decide either to trim its costs or raise its tuition...
...INDIANA. Republican Edgar D. Whitcomb, 50, is a trim (6 ft., 180 Ibs.) George Romney look-alike whose wife Pat is widely regarded as the prettiest woman on the Indiana political scene. A bomber navigator in World War II, Whitcomb was captured by the Japanese, later wrote a book called Escape from Corregidor, which he distributed by the thousands during his campaign. In his race against Lieutenant Governor Robert L. Rock, the Democratic nominee, conservative Whitcomb promised to veto any rise in state taxes, even though the Indiana treasury is bare...