Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advertisement in which the Anti- Defamation League reprinted Kallid Abdul Muhammad's little catalog of hatreds was brilliant for its restraint. It was an exercise in clarification. It said to its readers: here is prejudice, measure yourself by it. If it made some (but hardly all) black leaders trim and squirm, well, that was clarifying...
When the decisions on how to trim the benefits program are finally made, it is proper and essential that top-level administrators make them. but these administrators owe it to Harvard's workers to take their concerns seriously. Whether they will do so remains to be seen. The advisory groups in place could either be a tool for substantive consultation, or a facade for a closed process...
slime line place of work in a cannery, workers clean off fish slime and remove the blood, guts, and gills that the machine left behind and trim the fish for packaging...
...figure must always be trim...
...surprising extent. Just one year ago, the Congressional Budget Office projected a whopping $284 billion shortfall for fiscal 1995, which begins next October, and $287 billion for fiscal 1996. But last month the nonpartisan CBO predicted the budget gap would narrow to $166 billion in 1996. That would trim the deficit to just 2.2% of the country's gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1979. "Clinton's tax increases and spending cuts are largely responsible," says CBO director Robert Reischauer. "We have taken an important step along the road to fiscal responsibility...