Word: trims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business. While 39% feel that more federal regulation of business would help the economy, 59% do not. In contrast to the attitude of the Democratic-controlled Congress, voters want to end price controls on oil and natural gas by 49%-38%. They divide almost evenly on whether to trim existing social programs in order to balance the federal budget. The President is on the popular side of the busing issue, with 51 % favoring a constitutional amendment banning the practice and 39% opposed. The survey suggests, however, that candidates need not bend over backward to appease antiabortionists. A constitutional amendment banning...
...idea, the members of the group wore dungarees and dubbed themselves the Tramps. Later, when they decided to give their act some class, they added the second m to their name and a wardrobe worth $70,000. A favored outfit these days is a bright orange tuxedo with purple trim and flowered lapels...
Speed Record. "I'm getting people healthy and happy," exults Hinds. "And I'm also very healthy mentally and physically, not to mention my wallet." To keep those three facets in trim, Hinds demonstrates the Lifeline every chance he gets. Just last month in Washington, D.C., he set a new world "speed-jumping" record by skipping over his rope 63 times in ten seconds...
Weighing in at a trim 6½ tons, with a 20-ft. chest and 20-ft. arm span, the $2 million anthropoid is animated by 4,500 ft. of electrical wiring, 3,100 ft. of hydraulic hose and 50 hydraulic jacks that control his movements. The critics may term his acting mechanical, but at least the bionic baboon has seven distinct facial expressions, which is six more than the bionic man can claim. Kong's most embarrassing problem: because of leaky jacks, a steady stream of fluid oozes down his right...
...downward slide. Consequently, the Chase has been moving faster into the merchant banking field abroad. Loan standards have been tightened. The Chase has closed six of its 265 branches because they were unprofitable, and as many as 30 more might be shut down. In an effort to trim its paperwork problems, the bank has sold off its payroll processing and stock-transfer departments to smaller data-processing firms. As a result, in a move that one veteran officer describes as "not in the Chase tradition," 300 employees will be fired...