Word: trimming
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...John Karefa-Smart wonders where he will be a year from now. The tall, trim visiting professor of International Health may still be at the Medical School, lecturing on preventive medicine and world health. Or he might be back in West Africa, helping fellow Africans survive the unending five-year drought. But, if he had his way, he would be home in what he calls "my little country," in Sierra Leone, where re-arrest and imprisonment may await...
...every day for as long as anyone can remember at the same rooftop restaurant of a Lisbon hotel. His hair has been cut by the same barber for 30 years, and his nails have been cared for by the same manicurist for 26 years. A teetotaler, he has stayed trim by regular riding on his horse Achilles, the mount on which he has won several national and international competitions. He can also be somewhat overbearing. In Guinea, he told fat officers to lose weight, and if they did not, he ordered them shipped home. He is an odd man indeed...
...policy that will free the U.S. of its dependence on foreign oil. Moreover, there is a need to make administrative sense of an agency that has been too busy fighting fires to pull itself together. Meanwhile he will have to fight bureaucratic battles against people who want to trim away the sweeping power that Simon enjoyed; some staffers at the White House and Office of Management and Budget, for instance, want to phase out the FEO's fuel-allocation program. And Sawhill will have to do all this at the age of 37, after a mere 13 months...
Just then down the runway there was the hungry rumble of a mufflerless stocker in racing trim. Just at the end of the runway, they turned the corner, then saw us, and zoomed off. Will Perdy and his boy jumped in the pickup and were on the chase. Kenny yelled at me to hop on, and said, "I'll try and head 'em off the other way, Will! I'll tell 'em to clear out for you." And gripping the eggs tight, I held on as Kenny charged off into the blazing Florida afternoon, down the runway, chasing after...
...Heilbroner in effect says to the human race. "You're not the kid you once were. You can't burn the candle at both ends any more - maybe not even at one end, the way your energy resources are going. And you'll have to trim down that population bulge. Keep on doing what you're doing, boy, and you'll kill yourself...