Word: trimness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, Jackie Gleason graced his own tournament. A stalwart devotee of the game, Gleason invested $8000 for a Bicentennial golf cart sporting red-white-and-blue trim, CB radio, five-inch color TV, tape deck, electrically-powered roof...
This spring the Faculty will be asked to decide whether to trim Gen Ed down to a more restrictive core of required courses or allow it to continue its present fertile growth...
...estimated 1500 more on the Pacific Fleet (Center for Defense Information, Washington, D.C., January 19, 1976). It's an explosive situation. Any day Park, who has a shaky political base, might decide to unify the country by starting a defensive war; or our own forces might decide to trim another tree in the DMZ with consequences far worse than what happened a few months ago. Either way we would be instantly involved in a conflict that would have an excellent chance of becoming the first nuclear war in history...
...official business. Finally, he drove his own car and arrived half an hour late because he had trouble finding a parking place. Carter's limousine policy will save the Government only $12,000 a year in car-rental fees, but was a potent token of his determination to trim needless expenses and run a down-to-earth Administration. In a similar vein, the President is considering getting rid of some of the 29 presidential planes and mothballing the presidential yacht Sequoia...
STRENGTHENING NATO: During the campaign, Carter had talked about reducing American forces in Europe and cutting $5 billion to $7 billion from the U.S. defense budget. Mondale reassured alliance leaders that Carter's proposed effort to trim fat from the defense budget would not cut into U.S. contributions to NATO. On the contrary, he promised, the new Administration would preserve a modest increase in the NATO allocation contained in the Ford budget and would propose additional increases if the allies built up their own defenses...