Word: trim
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...large nationwide clothing manufacturers are selling winter parkas with fur trim described on the coats' labels as wolf fur at Cambridge and Boston area stores...
Another large clothing manufacturer, William Barry Company of Lawrence, is selling parkas with fur trim that is referred to as "natural wolf" on the label. The company told law enforcement officers earlier this month that the fur is actually coyote...
...boredom when the President is not on display. But when he goes on a trip, whether to San Clemente or Peking, they work under acute tension, always braced, like sprinters on their starting blocks, for the sound of a shot. On a tour the agents are immediately recognizable: trim young men with short hair and conservative suits who watch the people while the people watch the President. Often they must struggle to hold back the crowds, and sometimes-as in Caracas in 1958 -they are in danger of losing their own lives...
G.N.P. When the Board last met in September, it predicted that the real expansion of the gross national product would slow from 6% in 1973 to 2% or so next year. Those members who were willing last week to gaze into the future prophesied that the boycott would trim at least 1% from their earlier forecasts of real growth. Harvard's Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., believes that the G.N.P. will increase by 1.6% instead of 2.6% next year, assuming that the Arabs relent by April 1. But Alan Greenspan says that even if the oil resumes...
...democratic leader in a genuine emergency has the prerogative to act according to his discretion for the public good, provided he checks it out with the people and the legislature afterward. Through a succession of skirmishes and undeclared wars, and various employments of Executive agreements (which tended to trim congressional treaty-making powers), Schlesinger feels that the interplay between President and Congress remained fairly reasonable for more than 150 years...