Word: trimming
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...creative output was meager by most standards: she published only seven trim collections of poetry and short stories. "I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay," she said, "unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. My verses are no damned good." In fact, her verse was carefully shod, precise, often dazzling. It was shot through with self-pity and brittle melancholy. Her frequent approach was to make herself the fall girl in the battle of the sexes, and her favorite method was the abrupt change of pace. She might gush sentimentally and then suddenly clamp on her cynic...
Last week the band capped off the first Los Angeles Jazz Festival with an electrifying performance that brought 4,000 jazz buffs in U.C.L.A.'s Pauley Pavilion to their feet, cheering "More! More!" The trim, bearded Ellis lunged about the stage whipping the music to a demonic pitch, molding the arrangements on the spot by cuing his men in and out with shouts and hand signals. Occasionally, he pivoted and loosed a flock of high-flying notes from a specially made four-valve trumpet that enables him to play 24 tones in an octave, rather than the usual twelve...
...STEEL. To prevent steel from being dropped from the Round altogether, Britain agreed to shave its regular tariff from 11% to 8% and to trim 20% from its fixed duty of $12.60 a ton on certain steels. With that, the EEC sliced its steel levy from 9% to 5.7%, opening the way for a general world alignment of steel tariffs at around...
...into effect only if Congress repeals the controversial system by which duties on organic benzenoid chemicals-notably dyes, sulfa drugs, plastics and pesticides-are based on their American selling price, which results in tariffs as high as 172%. If Congress does so, the Common Market and Austria agreed to trim the carefully contrived taxes which help to keep large-horsepower U.S. autos out of Europe, and Britain promised to ease its Commonwealth preference on tobacco imports...
...accomplishment the Kennedy Round disappointed the world's developing countries, which contend that they must have preferential tariffs in order to escape their poverty. Under French pressure on behalf of France's former colonies, the Common Market failed to trim duties at all on tropical foods and fibers, thus stopping the U.S. from doing so. By common consent, devising more tariff help for the world's poor nations will be GATT's next order of business...