Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House would eventually try to reach a bipartisan accommodation at about 7% real growth. But Domenici's hopes were shattered last Tuesday when G.O.P. members of the Budget Committee were summoned to the White House to hear the President's final offer: a mere $10 billion trim in the Pentagon's nearly $2 trillion five-year spending plan, to be accomplished by using lower figures for inflation, fuel prices and MX basing costs...
...along," Domenici replied. At Democratic insistence, Reagan's proposal for 10.7% was put to a vote. It failed in the Republican-dominated committee by 19 to 2. The final slap came when the committee passed, by a 17-to-4 majority, an increase of only 5%. That would trim up to $13 billion from the proposed $274 billion defense budget for fiscal 1984, a trim that the various services would have to adjust to, probably by stretching out weapons purchases and cutting back funds for operation and maintenance...
Even more disturbing is Hart's rather cold, calculating approach to the issues. A New Democracy focuses only on how to increase production, how to increase employment, how to trim back the military and make it more efficient. It is a new technocracy: it has no soul While bolstering the overall state of the economy would President Hart care if resources were fluting to the South and the West, while the industrial Northeast and Northwest were left to rot? When increasing general training, would this chief executive competition for minorities, who continue to get stuck with more unemployment and lower...
...captures a few too many brilliant orange sunsets and displays too many young faces against sharp, blue skies for a movie otherwise rugged and right. Although The Outsiders is a refreshing departure from the pretentiousness of Apocalypse Now and One From The Heart, the director could still stand to trim his tendency towards the grandiose. In a movie about youth. Coppola seems to have been tempted to the epic limitlessness of Steven Spielberg's E.T. Carmino Coppola's sappy score and the overly brilliant shots by cinematographer Stephen H. Burum also work against a sense of immediacy and relevance...
...minister, he was bright enough to have won a scholarship to an Ivy League school and to have graduated with a degree in Russian. A natural athlete, Jack had played both college football and basketball and, at 31, maintained his 6-ft. 2-in., 190-lb. frame in perfect trim. Possessed of a ringing baritone, he was poised for a career in opera. Then, early last year, the glands in his neck became swollen and remained so for months on end. By summer, two small dark spots had appeared on his legs. At the urging of a friend, Jack...