Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, part of the Administration arsenal. The President's Office of Management and Budget predicts that economic growth alone will reduce the deficit to $127 billion in 1990, yet Congress pegs the number at a more realistic $146 billion. But even pie-in-the-sky scenarios cannot trim the deficit nearly enough to satisfy the requirements of Gramm-Rudman...
Jeff is an ordinary-looking man with blow-dried hair, a trim mustache, and thick-lensed eyeglasses that make his eyes look constantly startled, like those of the pets he freeze-dries. Most of Jeff's customers are serious about their pets. They have trouble accepting the death of their loved ones -- Jeff calls it "denying the grieving process" -- so they bring them...
...move, designed to trim costs and take advantage of increased competition among private vendors, was revealed in a January memo sent to all University offices...
...problem for Bush, observers say, is that the promises he made in the campaign mean tough cuts for other programs. Already, he has pledged not to touch Social Security, and has suggested he would not cut Medicare. Moreover, while Bush has said he would trim the defense budget, he has said he would limit it only to the level of inflation...
...shekel has been devalued by 13%. The measures, approved by the Cabinet last week, drew acrimonious opposition from the Histadrut labor federation and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. So vociferous was the army in protesting a proposed $193 million cut in the military budget that Peres ultimately agreed to trim only about $66 million...