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...growing enterprise can borrow a little more each year, if it's borrowing to make prudent investments). And everyone is certain that it's someone else's government benefit, not his, that should be eliminated, someone else's taxes that should be raised. ("I will support any measure to trim the deficit," Mac continued, warming to his subject, "so long as it doesn't cost me anything...
...starters, we need to redouble the effort to trim government waste, unpleasant as that will be for its beneficiaries, and to get people off welfare, because without the feeling that their money is being well spent, taxpayers will be loath to ante up more of it. If you're part of the waste being eliminated, do Bill a favor: don't write your Congressman. If you're a college grad who's welshed on his student loan, do Bill a favor...
...personal experience is that the students need a lot of help with their hair," he says. "It's hard for them because they don't know hair terminology. A trim to them could mean anything...
...normal times, the automakers would trim expenses, adjust to new market trends and wait for business to improve, but these are not normal times. While the U.S. is making a modest comeback in car sales, Europe and Japan show no signs of a turnaround. And none of the world's major car markets are likely to return to the headlong expansion of the 1980s. That is a particularly painful prospect for the Japanese companies, which have justified continuing investment in new plants and models on the premise of selling ever more cars...
...stamp, which features a young, trim Elvis, represents "the first time that a rock and roll star has been acknowledged by the Postal Service," said Michael D. Hannon, supervisor of mail at the Cambridge Post Office...