Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this dude starts leaning forward across his belly and looking real clear at the depty who's doing all the talking and starts wavin' the shotgun around his finger-like it's a fuckin' toothpick, man--and the deputy is a little skinny guy whose uniform is all trim and tucked and he says...
...began holding meetings with overweight neighbors, during which they encouraged each other to stick to diets. As the 48-year-old Mrs. Nidetch never tires of relating, that was the start of a new life that has transformed her from a 214-lb. Queens, N.Y., housewife into a trim 142-lb. career woman. It also was the beginning of a multinational business, Weight Watchers International, that is gaining financial weight as rapidly as its clients lose pounds...
...main labor groups that bargained with aerospace employers, described as "cynical" the board's decision to hold the line on workers employed by a depressed industry. But he also acknowledged its efficacy by pointedly omitting any mention of a strike. Public members suggested a compromise formula that would trim the first-year wage boost to 8.3% but increase the second-year raise from 3% to about 7%. That seemed equitable enough, but labor members, still smarting from their first real defeat on the board, were in no mood to take advice. Said U.A.W. Official Pat Greathouse: "Right...
...this trim, beautifully managed psychological thriller, a series of bizarre murders takes place. The mystery is not whodunit, but why; for Director Claude Chabrol (This Man Must Die) is fascinated by motivation, not detection. "I am not interested in solving puzzles," he has explained. "I am interested in studying the behavior of people involved in murder...
...their rates are already regulated by state and local governments, utility companies are usually not bound by federal regulations. However, the largest ones are required, like other giant corporations, to notify the Price Commission if they request or are granted permission to raise their rates; the commission conceivably could trim down the inflationary ones...