Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just before Operation Desert Storm began, the cold war formally ended and , the Pentagon was about to take some cuts. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney plans to trim the Army 31% over the next five years, the Navy 13%, the Air Force 28% and the Marines 14%. Taken together, those projected reductions will lop off 500,000 men and women -- or about the size of the force in the gulf -- from the 2.1 million now in uniform...
Pointing to figures released last week by City Manager Robert W. Healy and City Treasurer James Maloney that indicate the city will exceed its ability to tax by $300,000 in the next fiscal year, Cyr said that the city must act now to trim the upcoming expenses...
...armed and dangerous, but her knockout potential is also aesthetic. Meet . the gulf war's first pinup girl: Jackie Guibord, 28, a statuesque mother of two who wields a shotgun and sports a trim pair of jeans in a current Wrangler advertisement. Operation Desert Storm's answer to Betty Grable is actually a Provo, Utah, police officer who moonlights as a model. Her unofficial fan club began when a few Utah reservists took copies of the ad to the gulf. Before long other servicemen started tearing the photo out of magazines and pinning it up in tents, bunkers and just...
...addition, Babbit says, the recession may force the university to tighten its budget. Just this fall, in fact, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, citing economic malaise, decided to trim its budget by up to 6 percent in many departments...
...Well," explained my friend's boss, an even more senior partner, "we absolutely have to." He went around the barn a few times: "Conditions on Wall Street . . . Got to trim overhead . . . No reflection...