Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Government Spending: FOR: all major Administration appropriations bills; led the fight for funds to expand TVA power facilities with the Johnsonville steam plant. AGAINST (with Truman): all major attempts to trim fat and pork-barrel projects out of Rivers & Harbors bills and other congressional appropriations...
...then, the term "new car" is somewhat misleading, insofar as it signifies progress. This year's automotive atmosphere is typified by a Boston dealer's justification of the high price on his new model--"well," he said, "the trim is nicely finished...
...Paris-bound train when the stationmaster at Dijon handed him President Auriol's telegram inviting him to try his hand at forming a cabinet. Pinay, an Independent Republican, had never considered himself a likely Premier. With his neat crinkly hair, his long thin face, glasses, and his trim little mustache, he looked just what he was: a small-town French businessman...
...price cutting will wash the small retailer down the drain, since he is unable to get the volume to compete with Goody's phenomenally low (8%) markup. The manufacturers themselves, drawing lessons from Goody's demonstration of what big volume and low markups can do, may trim their own prices...
...tankers, Morris has received neither subpoena power nor the privilege to immunize certain witnesses from prosecution. The investigation has dragged on for so long that it looks as if Morris' chances to tackle the Internal Revenue Department are as remote as Pogo's fulfilling his "date in Lapland to trim a reindeer...