Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy has not improved by spring, Dole says, then G.O.P. congressional leaders will have to go to Reagan and persuade him to trim his sacred defense budget and propose new taxes. Should the White House still not act, it will be even more difficult, if not impossible, for the Republican leadership to muster the votes to raise the debt ceiling when that becomes necessary this summer. Laments Republican Senator Pete Domenici, chairman of the budget committee, in a decided understatement: "It's obviously going to be a very difficult year...
...personal inspiration. When he met Frieda Lawrence's granddaughter, he instantly fell in love. Then reality began to edit illusion. When the first words his new wife spoke to him on their wedding morning were "You didn't cut off the crusts" (he had forgotten to trim the connubial toast), Alvarez thought: "It's the wrong script." Frantically, he turned page after page. Didn't Lawrence write that Grand Passion was part of the Great Tradition? Wasn't marriage a heroic endeavor? When, four years later, his marriage foundered, the writer felt that...
Until last year, the program was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Unfortunately, when Washington forced the NSF to trim its fat, the Yellow Pig got the axe. There was no 1981 session, and students attending the program this summer will have to pay full rate. Meanwhile. Kelly continues his quest for new sources of funding, in the hope that future generations of much students will be free to spread the word--and the member...
...defender. A surprise winner the last time the title was up for grabs, but in virtually the same shape as a year ago, the champions chomps at the mouth-piece for the chance to make it two in a row. Directly opposite, decked out in scarlet with white trim, waits the contender. Alive down to the last punch a record number of times, and boasting more championships than anyone else, the challenger hopes to renew a recently tainted reputation...
...eyebrow ever so slightly at the Midwesternizing of the counterculture in his parody of a shopping-guide ad for "St. Paul's Episcopal Drop-In Hair Center (in the rectory basement)" where the Rev. Ray and the Rev. Don, trained barbers, "offer warm, supportive pre-and post-trim counseling . . . and if you just want to come in and talk about haircuts, well, that's cool too." Another ad, inserted by a people's used-furniture collective, condemns alienating queen-size beds, recommending instead "our Warm Valley Bed . .. narrow and soft and shaped like a trough, gently urging...