Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husband's handiwork: "Suddenly the row of shingles he'd put on the roof would be crooked, and he couldn't saw a straight line." And for Chicago Office Clerk Eleanor Marzillo, it began with her husband's difficulty in shaving; first his trim mustache got bushier and bushier, then one day he shaved half of it off. At the same time, Marzillo recalls, rags were mysteriously collecting in the family car. "I couldn't figure out what Tony was doing with these rags," she says. "It turned out he knew how to start...
...nearly $6,000 for a superdeluxe electronic version that measures speed and mileage and displays distance on a small screen. About half of MacLevy's treadmills find their way into executive gyms and other posh clubs in big U.S. cities, where large corporations try to keep their workers trim, fit and healthy...
...Reagan still refused to support significant new taxes. That prompted a revolt by a quintet of Republican moderates, led by John Chafee of Rhode Island. They proposed to alleviate future deficits by a moderate increase in taxes and a trim of the defense budget's growth to 6%. Although most Senate Democrats joined forces with the Republican moderates, no budget plan could garner a majority...
...Trim and suntanned, Walton is a 1940 graduate of the University of Missouri and worked for J.C. Penney briefly before World War II military service. He and his brother Bud, now a senior vice president, opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City in Rogers...
...project. His greatest good fortune may have been to meet Naval Architect Guy Ribadeau-Dumas in 1982. Ribadeau-Dumas, 32, who had already designed successful racers, built several ingenious engineering features into Credit Agricole, notably a seawater ballast system that permits speedy adjustment of the boat's trim...