Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This carefully tooled engine of mu sic is the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, a group of 22 young, well-tempered muzykanly currently touring the U.S. with a rich repertory that runs from Bach to Bartok. At the wheel is Conductor Rudolf Barshai, 39, a trim violist who organized the group in 1955 at the Moscow Conservatory...
Since the grain deal is tricky politics at best, the Kennedy Administration is doing its best to make it appear no giveaway. Anxious to see the deal go through, U.S. shippers have agreed to trim their prices to within a few dollars of foreign rates. The Administration also has another way around its shipping dilemma: let its eager private dealers sell the grain on a "cost-and-freight" basis, under which they will arrange the shipping themselves, and include the cost in the total package. The dealers will take a chance on getting smaller profits if they have to ship...
There is now considerable evidence that Erhard would like to trim welfare benefits. Wages are currently so high that a considerable amount of German industry is leaving the country in search of cheaper labor and higher profits. But if Erhard tries to ease this problem by welfare cuts, he will not only give the Socialists an issue for 1965, but he will arouse opposition in the left wing of his own party. He will again face the problem of unifying his party and clarifying its image before the election...
...more attractive argument is the possible improvement in the U.S. balance of payments. Actually, while the Pentagon could trim a lot out of its budget (every division costs some $75 million a year), there would be no great saving to the gold flow, since West Germany is tied by a so-called "offset" agreement to spend some $650 million a year in 1962-64 on materiel purchases in the U.S. The guarantee to offset U.S. dollar
...Paris Opera had commissioned a big, spectacular work from the composer five years ago. And when Menotti presented a huge opera bouffe, it was banished to the cramped Comique on the ground that it was too frivolous for France's official opera house. Menotti did his best to trim and squeeze his long work, but it came out looking starved instead. Paris was rightfully unimpressed ("Distressing, extremely poor, bordering on indigence," wrote Le Figaro), but The Last Savage will have another go at civilization in January. The Metropolitan Opera will present its New York premiere in the grand manner...