Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found. The greatest problem, says Greenewalt, is to be patient enough to carry a seemingly losing proposition for five or six years, but at the same time be hard-boiled enough to know when to quit. ("No scientist ever wants to.") By so doing, Du Pont is able to trim the 20-to-1 odds to final odds of 4 to 1 on the projects which are actually pushed on after others are dropped...
Trio. Another trim package of Somerset Maugham short stories, fragile but handled with care by the British producers of Quartet (TIME...
Trio. Another trim package of Somerset Maugham short stories, fragile but handled with care by the British producers of Quartet (TIME...
...program to keep the U.S. out of the red and put rearmament on a pay-as-you-go basis. A special tax committee headed by J. Cameron Thomson, president of Minneapolis' Northwest Bancorporation, urged that 1) Congress immediately levy $10 billion in new taxes; 2) the Administration trim at least $3 billion, and possibly $6 billion, from its projected $74 billion budget for fiscal...
...Department, wholesalers' sales to retailers were 53% ahead of last year; retail sales, on the other hand, have been running only 18% above a year ago. Retailers stocked up in anticipation of more scare buying, which did not develop. Unless buying picks up, many will be forced to trim prices to unload. Said one Atlanta retailer: "The test will come after Easter...