Word: trim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what is the alternative? One answer is offered by Adelphi University, on New York's Long Island, which was on the verge of bankruptcy when Peter Diamandopoulos was named president seven years ago. His strategy: trim fat by linking Adelphi's professional schools, notably in business, social work and nursing, with its undergraduate studies and by introducing an imaginative core curriculum that encompasses ethics as well as arts and sciences. One part of the curriculum deals with "the nature of modernity" and ranges from war and / economic development to breakthroughs in technology...
...March 20. "Obviously, this is not a boom," says Thomas Webb, chief economist for the National Automobile Dealers Association. Yet the modest overall pickup has left the Big Three with dwindling backlogs of unsold cars and busier production schedules. Ford plans just 12 weeks of plant shutdowns to trim inventories in the second quarter, compared with 36 weeks for the same period a year ago. The downtime could be extended, though, if buyers stay fickle. Says a Ford analyst: "If we had three or four bad weekends in a row, we'd have to adjust our schedules again...
Behind 5-11 in the first, the Bulldogs ran off five points in a row to trim Harvard's lead to one. A timely timeout by the Crimson stopped the run and allowed Harvard to close out the game...
...Agenda 21 -- such as commitments to mass transit and energy efficiency -- could ultimately improve Americans' standard of living. A recent study coordinated by the Union of Concerned Scientists contends that slashing CO2 emissions by 70% over the next 40 years would cost the U.S. economy $2.7 trillion, but would trim fuel and utility bills by $5 trillion. Reducing waste and pollution will take fundamental changes in the American economy, but, says the U.N.'s Maurice Strong, secretary-general of the Earth Summit, "the U.S. hasn't yet realized the economic consequences of not making those changes...
...from SNL characters, has a TV skit provided the cue for such a quick movie moneymaker. But The Blues Brothers' tab ran a chunky $30 million; Wayne's World cost less than $15 million and reaped lots of cheap promotion with an MTV special. For an industry eager to trim the bloat on spiraling spending, the message is clear. "The public doesn't care how much a movie costs," says Barry London, head of marketing at Paramount, which released Wayne's World as well as another TV-to-movie hit, The Addams Family. "They just want value for their entertainment...