Word: trim
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Hallion’s last three-pointer—she finished a perfect 3-for-3 beyond the arc—pushed the lead to 12 at 52-40, and the Pride spent the rest of the night clamoring to trim its deficit...
...pill. But a paper published today on BMJ.com shows exactly that: Taking federally approved anti-obesity medications, such as Xenical and Acomplia, leads only to modest weight loss - an extra 6 lbs. to 10 lbs. (2.7 kg to 4.7 kg) a year - and it's not likely to radically trim down bulging waistlines. "People have to understand it's very difficult to lose weight," says lead author Raj Padwal, an assistant professor at the University of Alberta...
Rather than rest on those rankings or trim passenger amenities as its U.S. rivals are doing, Singapore Air plans to spend $100 million by June to improve its business cabins, mainly by adding beds on every long-haul plane in the fleet. Despite these investments--and unlike most of its competitors--government-backed SIA is making good money. Profit of $358 million made it the second most profitable passenger airline in the world in 2001, behind only Southwest Airlines ($511 million). For the six months ending last September, the latest period reported, profit was $443 million (at least...
...Arnoldo Alem?n and ex-communist guerrilla leader Henry "Modesto" Ruiz are both on the client list. His Eminence, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, the country's top religious authority, has been getting the same haircut here for 30 years. Managua's Sandinista Mayor, Nicho Marenco, comes in for a trim every month, as do the publishers of the two leading opposition dailies, and a flurry of politicians, businessmen and financial leaders...
...while rival Target, the fashion-forward, design-centric glamour girl of discounting, runs up 2% to 4% monthly increases. Wall Street complains that Wal-Mart spends too much money opening the same old big boxes, so much so that Wal-Mart announced it will cut store growth and even trim store size. "You do more and more of the same thing and put more and more energy against the same activity, and the rate of improvement diminishes," CEO Lee Scott acknowledges. "So then do you put more resources against doing the same thing, or do you finally back...