Word: trim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...changed? Were X or Y or Z different people from the ones we knew in high school? I suppose that people approach college with different sets of expectations or hopes of change, in much the same way people debate what kind of haircut to get. "Just a trim," or "take it all off?" There's a kind of self-discovery or self-destruction that comes from shaving your head--a decision that unfortunately too many of my friends made during freshman year--which is probably analogous to subjecting yourself to radical personal change. The most frightening aspect is that despite...
...annual rate. Last year the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking an experimental CPI, for the first time trying to account for rational behavior: substituting chicken for beef, for instance, when beef prices rise. That formula will be incorporated in the official CPI by next year and will trim an additional .2 of a percentage point off the annual rate...
...Tighten the ending? Develop the character of the evil gym teacher a little more fully? Trim the scene with Hortense and the horse...
Unlike the pill-popping, shake-slurping diet crazes of the 1980s, the Zone has a digestible but unorthodox premise: staying trim depends mainly on eating meals in which 40% of the calories come from carbohydrates, 30% from protein and 30% from fat. Or, put another way: eat the butter; hold the bread...
Over the past five years, a new crop has sprouted across the broad, fertile plains of northern Germany. Sprinkled among the barns and silos are thousands of 100-ft.-tall towers topped by sleek, fiber-glass blades that whirl slowly in the breeze. Functioning as clean, trim powerhouses, these modern windmills turn even gentle currents of air into strong currents of electricity, energizing the region's businesses and homes without hurting the environment...