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...should know. For the past 60 years the state agency has controlled the very ebb and flow of my livelihood--so to speak. When my grass gets overgrown, they trim it. When my streams get more polluted, they check my water quality for would-be swimmers. And when I need repairs, they...well...
...weapon for punishing, individual congressmen. Used in this way, it can actually increase government spending. Congressmen have traditionally attached district-pleasing pork barrel to major spending legislation to protect their pet projects from vetoes. The President, proponents would argue, should have an item veto so that he can trim away this unnecessary spending. So far so good. But suppose that a new weapons system, which the President strongly favors, comes up. He now needs votes in Congress. Ordinarily, he would bargain, compromise, appear on television, and do whatever he could to persuade congressmen and their constituents to see things...
...their holdings or they fear that someone wants to take them over." In evading Raiders Carl Icahn and T. Boone Pickens, Phillips Petroleum took on $4.5 billion in new loans. It now plans to sell about $2 billion worth of assets in the next twelve months to trim its obligations. Chevron borrowed $10 billion to acquire Gulf Oil last year, and it too has been forced to cut back. The California giant is negotiating the sale of a majority stake in Gulf's Canadian operations for $2.5 billion, and may unload more property by the end of the year...
...Cabinet cut away the methods that Israelis use to protect themselves from inflation, by suspending the wage-indexing system that ties earnings to the cost of living and severely restricting further deposits in bank accounts linked to the value of the U.S. dollar. The Cabinet also agreed to trim $750 million from Israel's budget and to dismiss 9,000 government employees within 90 days...
...know what he wanted. "First," he announced, "I've got to see Mae and get a haircut." Mae Hammond, a widow who runs a barbershop on the corner of the town square, assented. Testrake, she said of the man who comes to her every two weeks for a trim, was "looking a little shaggy...