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...practice, the tax rate increase would range from taxing one-family homes an extra $83 annually, and taxing homes with nine or more families an extra $2729 annually. The other measures the council passed were mainly formalities designed to trim a little fat and put the city in compliance with state codes...
Although there were surprisingly few lotteries this term, three classes did resort to booting students from their lecture halls to trim down to a maximum enrollment...
That is also true for the draconian cutbacks at giant manufacturing firms. IBM has pared 32,000 jobs from its payroll since 1985 and plans to reduce its work force by another 17,000 this year. The latest moves will trim IBM's work force to some 356,000 as Big Blue struggles to regain a share of the worldwide computer market that has slipped from 35% a decade ago to less than 25% today. "We've cut layers of management," says a company spokesman. "These are our ways of staying alive and being competitive." In Detroit, Ford, Chrysler...
Teachers get them instead. Attired in trim khaki-and-white uniforms, Moton youngsters between the ages of four and 11 work through reading and mathematics exercises and then at recess stampede out of the air-conditioned, cinder-block building to become blurs in the steamy 100 degrees heat. They are candid about their options. "If I was home, I'd just sit around," says fifth-grader Alkima Thomas...
...dramatic contrast, John McCarthy, who was also held for five years, bounced back into freedom looking as if he had just been away for the weekend. Trim and fit, the 34-year-old Briton fielded questions with grace and humor and seemed more than ready to resume his private life and even his public duties as a television reporter. Back in Britain at the Royal Air Force base in Lyneham, McCarthy took time out from being examined to deliver a letter from his captors to the U.N. Secretary-General, tootle around the base in a borrowed car and take...