Word: trimming
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...average-length coffins. The Socialist-Communist city planners thought they solved the problem neatly, but when some coffins had to be shaved at both ends because their occupants were too long for their resting place, Christian Democrats angrily accused the Marxists of tampering with the dead "just as you trim the budget...
...When trim John G. Paimer, 50, chairman of Australia's Ready Mixed Concrete, Ltd., decided to issue 750,000 new shares of stock in his company's British subsidiary, he and his colleagues were a bit worried by the shaky state of the London stock market. To their astonishment, British investors rushed in to oversubscribe the issue 60 times, thereby forcing a drawing to see who would actually get the coveted shares. The reason for all the enthusiasm: since Palmer, a New Zealand-born corporation lawyer, joined Ready Mixed as a director in 1945, the company has expanded...
...might call it," says Sir Frank Packer, head of the three-man syndicate that built Gretel. Though U.S. yachtsmen have reservations about Gretel's design-some thought her "long-ended," said her fore-and-aft overhang might make her hobbyhorse in a brisk breeze-they conceded that the trim Australian boat might well be the toughest challenger...
Never have the G.M. system and the man that heads it been better mated than they are today. When Fred Donner, a trim (5 ft. 9 in., 152 lbs.) and reserved accountant, succeeded flamboyant Harlow Curtice as chief executive in 1958, many an outsider believed that G.M. had turned the driver's seat over to a walking calculator when what the job called for was a sales or production genius. In the three years since, Donner's electronic-quick brain has proved to be everything everyone said of it. (Says Donner of his numbers skill, in characteristic self...
...dining rooms of the colleges are high-ceilinged halls featuring walls similar to those on the outside with added oak trim and floors of slate bordered in polished wood. Both have stages for theatrical purposes. The rooms will be dominated by abstract chandeliers by Oliver Andrews. The only other art fixtures embodied in the original design are several abstract plaques which will intersect corners of the building. They are the work of Constantine Nivola, the artist who produced the graffito in the Quincy House Dining Room...