Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest exporter of metallurgical coal in the U.S., Pittston has seen the world price of its product halved (to $30 a ton) in the past seven years. To trim costs, Pittston offered its employees a $1-an-hour raise in exchange for reduced health benefits -- from 100% coverage to 80% with a deductible -- and a seven-day-a-week "flex time" work schedule. Losing their precious Sundays as well as part of their health plan was too much for the miners. On April 5 they walked...
...precocious childhood through audacious beginnings as an actor-director and finally to the status of cult figure to be wheeled in on special occasions, biographer Frank Brady reveals Welles as a thin man in which there was always a fat man trying to get out. Even as a tall, trim youth, Welles had gargantuan intellectual and physical appetites. It was not enough that he had prematurely grasped the concept that art was essentially an illusion, a magic show. He insisted on making his tricks as obvious as possible...
...demise. But the Administration risks going too far in assuming, imprudently, that favorable trends in Soviet domestic and foreign policy are irreversible -- no matter who the General Secretary is -- and not far enough in taking advantage of the immediate opportunities that Gorbachev himself represents. For example, his willingness to trim Soviet military muscle might give the U.S. a welcome chance to rethink some of its own more expensive superweapons...
That would increase the government's cost of financing the $2.7 trillion national debt, which would be bad news for President Bush, who is trying to trim the budget deficit without raising taxes...
...azaleas are in bloom in Metairie, a neatly landscaped New Orleans suburb where conservatives vastly outnumber liberals and the lush estates of the wealthy border the trim wood-and-stucco bungalows of the middle class. But there was a deeper shade of red last week on the faces of national Republican leaders over what the residents of Metairie, who populate Louisiana's 81st legislative district, had wrought. Some 78% of the district's 21,464 registered voters, only 52 of whom are black, had turned out to give a vacant statehouse seat to David Duke, 38, a former grand wizard...