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...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has cut at least 20 night bus runs in Cambridge in a system-wide effort to trim the debt-ridden T's operating expenses...
...Sticking to the Kemp-Roth tax cut timetable, which would trim personal income levies by 10% a year for three years. While some of Reagan's more cautious advisers had earlier urged him to spread the reductions over five years, he insisted on the original proposal. But Reagan left room to change his position if the cuts fail to stimulate economic activity and turn out to be inflationary...
...begun to work against it. Students today are reluctant to confront graduate schools and employers with unconventional college grade transcripts. As a result, enrollment at Santa Cruz began to slip after reaching 6,134 in 1976. Last year U.C. President David Saxon warned that the campus would have to trim its faculty unless enrollment rose significantly by 1983. This year the student body is up to 6,472 but that figure includes 460 students who wanted to go to the University of California at Berkeley and came to U.C.S.C. only because they were promised they could transfer to Berkeley later...
Katharine Hepburn, 70, actress, asked how she stays trim: "I don't have to watch my figure as I never had much of one to watch. What you see before you is the result of a lifetime of chocolate...
This is one of the reasons we should trim down the functions of the Federal Government - stripping away decisions that do not have to be made in Washington, and placing the power of decision with states, localities and the private sector. This also argues, paradoxically, for limiting the size of the White House staff. Staffs develop functions; staff members acquire staffs of their own; these multiply functions further. If you want to trim back the functions, one place to begin is by trimming back the staffs...