Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia's first families turned up at the museum, inspected models of other Skidmore, Owings & Merrill buildings (Lever House, U.S. Air Force Academy), then went by bus to see the new Reynolds building in full scale. Even with the three-story office building's satiny aluminum trim, Virginians found much that was familiar. The courtyard was paved with familiar red brick, and the moon shone down on a five-jet fountain, holly bushes and a 40-ft. magnolia tree. But inside they found 14-ft.-high executive offices with cherry-paneled walls on which hung such moderns...
Most businessmen believe that the best and quickest way to cure the glut in many commodities is not a governmental plan but voluntary agreements to trim output and bring supply in line with demand. The copper industry has shown how producers can solve many of their own problems. Copper producers voluntarily cut back production in the face of a big supply and falling prices. The market stabilized itself without any artificial controls, and last week copper prices were moving...
...might suspect, Mace is a tall, trim, and solidly built man, who wears black horn-rimmed glasses for reading, smokes mentholated cigarettes, and works at his desk in shirtsleeves that are clean enough to smell white. His disposition is unbearable until he has had his first cup of coffee in the morning, but Mace explains this as "an old Norwegian habit...
...pervasive odor of human manure, the characteristic fragrance of Japan a decade ago, has all but disappeared. Today's farmers buy chemical fertilizers instead. In rice-rich Ichijo. almost all farmhouses now have tiled kitchens, running water and-as a supreme mark of gentility-neat, outdoor privies with trim red pillars...
...Jordan, retirement from practice at the Lahey Clinic and New England Baptist Hospital will not mean taking off a starched white coat: she has not worn one since internship, has favored trim dresses and suits that emphasize the briliant china blue of her eyes. Neither will retirement mean less activity-only more variety. She has a lot of technical medical writing to catch up on, wants to get back to the classics she has had to neglect for so long, and to learn Spanish. Dr. Jordan wants more free time with her second husband, retired Investment Banker Penfield Mower...