Word: trimming
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Slightly more than half of those surveyed also feel that more than a year will be required to improve the nation's defenses, re-establish American prestige abroad, trim waste from Government, deal effectively with the Soviets and reduce unemployment. Though the poll does not measure just how long Americans will be patient about these problems, it does show that Reagan is not expected to be a miracle worker...
...last week quickly began working through the 638-page budget to see how they might change it. Stockman promised to revise the Carter document "from top to bottom, because clearly it is not an acceptable fiscal policy and would only cause further deterioration of the economy." He hopes to trim an additional $30 billion to $50 billion of nondefense expenditures. But despite such grand claims, the Carter budget will remain the centerpiece for discussions about 1982 spending. The Reagan Administration will be able to alter some parts of it, but the broad thrust of federal spending during the next fiscal...
...final decisions on spending will be taken by Congress. During his term, Carter made sporadic attempts to reduce outlays. He offered new legislation to force hospitals to curb Medicare costs, a plan to trim student-loan programs and even a quixotic proposal to pare Social Security payments. But these efforts were all stillborn on Capitol Hill. Laments one Carter lieutenant, looking back on the experience: "Just about every time we went to Congress, we got massacred...
Both Reagans get a substantial sartorial lift from their good looks and trim figures. Says Mariani: "He has about as close to a perfect figure as you can have...
...urge those called upon to register to refuse, and to refuse loudly. When draft registration began six months ago, there were plenty of reasons to oppose it, reasons that have not disappeared. Registration remains militarily foolish--estimates are it will trim by but a few days the time it takes to induct Americans into the armed forces. And registration remains a political ploy--originally adopted to aid the flagging reelection campaign of President Carter, it also served as a part of that chief executive's dangerously confrontational revival of the cold war. And President-elect Ronald Reagan, who found...