Word: trimmings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: For John Kasich, this was like a primary win. The GOP budgetmeister and fiscal watchdog got a new line on his Kasich 2000 résumé Friday when the House approved a GOP plan to slice domestic spending by an additional $101 billion through 2003 and trim taxes by the same amount...
...trim and with a full head of steel gray hair, Rubin looks young to be the chief architect of the country's fiscal policy...
...Still trim and vigorous in what she allows only as her seventh decade, Ross quickly took charge of the discussion about her years working and living with William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 until 1987. Shawn died in 1992 at the age of 85, leaving sons Allen, a composer married to former New Yorker writer Jamaica Kincaid, and Wallace, an actor and playwright. Shawn's wife of 64 years, Cecille...
...with 10,080 bananas, 41,660 eggs and more than 4,000 quarts of booze. By squeezing such costs, Arison says, Carnival can break even with its ships filled to around 60% of capacity. Yet with vessels like Destiny often packed to the gunwales, Carnival has been able to trim operating expenses to 54% of revenues. That contributes to a net profit margin of 27%, first class by any measure...
...plans to repurchase $39 billion of their own stock, down from $52 billion during the same period last year. At the same time, companies are flooding the market with new stock: $34 billion in the first quarter, vs. $28 billion last year, according to Charles Biderman, president of Liquidity Trim Tabs, an investment newsletter. Buying less, selling more...