Word: trimming
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...minutes to 8 on Saturday night-the evening arrival was carefully chosen so as not to violate the Jewish Sabbath-the Egyptian white Boeing 707, its red trim glistening under klieg lights, rolled to a stop at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. Israeli army trumpeters blared out a welcoming fanfare. As thousands of Israelis waved their newly purchased red-white-and-black Egyptian flags, out stepped President Anwar Sadat on a "sacred mission"-to speak directly to the people of Israel about peace...
...halted before a well-guarded gate. "This is Maidenek," Dmitri Kudriavtsev said. I saw a huge, not unattractive, temporary city. There were about 200 trim, grey green barracks, systematically spaced for maximum light, air and sunshine. There were winding roads and patches of vegetables and flowers. I had to blink twice to take in the jarring realities: the 14 machine-gun turrets jutting into the so-blue sky; the 12-ft.-high double rows of electrically charged barbed wire; the kennels which once housed hundreds of gaunt, man-eating dogs...
...opponent and the next mark. "We decided to look for wind," said Conner. It was Bertrand who found it. As they rounded the first mark, the Aussies led by 23 sec., having made up a whole minute. Liberty's strut broke again, and Conner was unable to trim his main properly; by the end Australia II had a 1 min. 47 sec. lead...
...problems are compounded by the government's efforts to slow inflation, currently running at an annual rate of about 150%. In return for roughly $850 million in loans from the IMF and commercial banks, the administration of President João Figueiredo is pledging to trim inflation to 55% next year and cut to zero the rate of growth of its budget deficit, which last year totaled an estimated $50 billion...
...unemployment rate seemed engagingly simple. If employees worked fewer hours, jobs could be spread among more people. Mitterrand's Socialist administration has thus pared France's 40-hour work week to 39 hours since taking office more than two years ago, and it plans to trim it to 35 hours by 1985. The government has also given the French a fifth week of annual vacation and has lowered the legal retirement age to 60 for workers who have labored 371/2 years...