Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress has allocated $100,000 a year toward its upkeep. But even with a further $220,000 from the Post Foundation, the amount falls far short of the estimated $1 million a year required to keep the place in proper trim. Clearly, this Post serial will be continued...
...layoffs. Now the O'Briens and their ten-year-old daughter Stacey are struggling to keep up by means of Gail's $125 per week unemployment checks and Ed's $800 per month take-home pay as a production supervisor for a weather-stripping and auto-trim manufacturing company. Previously their joint income was about $35,000 per year. The biggest problem: $20,000 in consumer debts, accumulated in happier times while both held well-paying jobs. Says Ed plaintively: "We fell into the credit trap. We certainly won't do that again...
...victims?" asked Carter as he strode onto the field in 100° heat. The White House team was loaded with Secret Service agents. "I thought the game was fixed when you bring ballplayers in from all over the country just to play one game," jeered a newly trim and fit Brother Billy, captain of the opposing team, a collection of locals and reporters...
Criminal Rights. The Burger Court, like the American public, has made no secret of its unhappiness over the number of criminals who go free because of restrictions on the admissibility of illegally obtained evidence. This year it availed itself of several opportunities to trim back those restrictions. In one case in which the Government had seized evidence illegally from one person, the court did not balk at allowing it to be used in the trial of another (U.S. vs. Payner). The safeguard against compulsory self-incrimination also came in for a little tightening: from now on, the prosecution can attack...
...trim that percentage further and stimulate more business competition, Martínez de Hoz has granted tax incentives to encourage foreign firms already in Argentina to expand their operations and new ones to set up plants. So far, the response has been positive. Ford plans to spend $160 million on expansion of its plant located in a suburb of the capital. Volkswagen intends to invest $100 million to expand the plant it bought from Chrysler. Martínez de Hoz also relaxed Argentina's ultranationalist laws banning foreign oil companies from participating in petroleum exploration. In response, foreign firms...