Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming forward with an actual bill. There is good reason for this unusual procedure. By calling for a vote on the White Paper, which is likely to come within the next two weeks, he could shrug off defeat as not important enough to warrant resignation of his government-then trim the terms of his steel nationalization plans so as to win over the two or three marginal votes needed to carry his slim margin when the vote comes on the actual bill itself. Inevitably, the cry "slippery" rose again as Wilson pushed ahead with sly tactics...
...head "Justice for Powell" cocktail parties, which have helped to raise $16,000 to date. "I'm just," said he, "a poor parish priest." He will be poorer still if Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin has his way. The California Democrat has introduced a bill that would trim the Government salary of Powell's wife Yvette from $18,907 to a mere...
Hello, Joe. Starting off with new Treasury Secretary Henry ("Joe") Fowler, who was attending his first official Cabinet meeting, Busby called for round-the-room recitations. Fowler's contribution was that "considerable improvements have been detected in a preliminary way" in efforts to trim the balance-of-payments deficit. However, he added hastily, "it is too soon to make any predictions" about reductions in the first quarter of 1965. His piece said, Fowler slipped from the room...
Rigid Auditing. A longtime Providence banker who was brought into Textron by Founder Royal Little in 1954 as Little's heir apparent, taciturn, trim-waisted Rupe Thompson runs his far-flung company with a staff of only 83 people on one floor of a Providence office building. He allows his divisions to operate almost autonomously, much as at General Motors, a corporation that Thompson has studied minutely and admires mightily. His staff coordinates the company's affairs, channels profits where needed. "I'm all for delegating responsibility," says Thompson, "but I also ask for accountability." That takes...
...Rebekah Harkness is a trim strawberry blonde and mother of three. She rises each morning at dawn, pulls on a pair of tights and spends two hours taking private ballet lessons. "I must do it myself," she explains, "or else I'd just sit back and write out checks...