Word: trimness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's proposed $25 billion tax cut. Noted Okun: "What looked to me like a reasonable fiscal policy in December, and indeed a month ago, looks too stimulative today." The same thought dawned on the Administration when it agreed at week's end with congressional leaders to trim the cut to $20 billion and roll it back from Oct. 1 to next New Year...
...trim (5 ft. 11 in., 154 Ibs.) and ?yes?unmarried. As if this were not enough to thrill every mother (and every mother's daughter) in the entire United Kingdom, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, is also heir to the classiest preserve of royal pomp and privilege left on earth: the British throne...
Breaking cleanly from the gate, Cauthen guided the handsome and trim chestnut colt into a comfortable gallop off the lead through the backstretch, rating Affirmed gently for the push to the finish line. As the field streaked into the final turn, he urged Affirmed into the lead, whipping, then hand-riding, opening a generous gap that carried Affirmed to the wire an easy winner. For the blacksmith's son from Walton, Ky., the transition from toddler on the backstretch to top jock was complete...
...proposal for a net cut of $25 billion in individual and corporate taxes. Though a Harris poll in March turned up a 55% majority in favor of the program, people questioned earlier by Gallup pollsters declared 9 to 1 that it was more important to control inflation than to trim taxes. As a result, strong pressure is building in Congress to reduce the cut to $18 billion or $20 billion, and perhaps to delay it by three months as well, making it effective Jan. 1. Those two moves would pare the fiscal 1979 deficit from the $61 billion that Carter...
...Local Taxes. If their projected wage increases were reduced, the states and cities could trim their sales, income or property taxes. Another reason for reduction: many states and localities are enjoying budget surpluses...