Word: trims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once, the perfect Southern gentleman and the easygoing good ole boy. Trim, handsome and carefully dressed, he can exude the effortless charm of a man comfortable with wealth and power even as he chews a wad of Red Man tobacco, spitting the juice into a paper cup. A well-educated scion of a prominent line of Houston attorneys, he enjoys fishing with his buddies in the waters of Matagorda Bay and hunting wild turkey on his land near San Antonio. He is a managerial mastermind who relaxes by watching pro football games and listening to Tammy Wynette records...
...last Friday morning when he discussed his new job with TIME White House Correspondents Laurence I. Barrett and Barrett Seaman. With a big grin, he displayed a baseball bat aides had given him as a weapon in his new post. But he was also serious in describing his fighting trim. "At age 25," he said of his World War II service in the Marines, "I had 900 men under me in battle. If you don't think that seasons you for combat in Washington later in your life, you're crazy." Other highlights of the interview...
...economic aid over the next 21 months. Included in this request is an extra $800 million in financial assistance for fiscal 1985, in addition to the $2.6 billion already appropriated by Congress for the year. Some State Department officials call the additional request "unbelievable." Shultz had urged Israel to trim its $23 billion budget for fiscal 1985 by at least a billion dollars beyond the $1.5 billion in cuts already planned. He also suggested an end to the system of tying wage and benefit increases to inflation, which is rising at an annual rate of 486%, as well as cutbacks...
...Reston, Va., is indeed a small (1,500 sq. ft.), compact cottage. Clever manipulation of the two-level interior spaces, however, makes it look and feel much larger. Designed by Woodstock, N.Y., Architect Lester Walker, the house is made entirely of wood, with cedar bevel siding and bright blue trim. This model home was sponsored by the American Wood Council and House Beautiful magazine...
...predicted that the gross national product will expand 2% this quarter, down from the 4% they foresaw last September, and then grow a healthy 3% to 4% in 1985. That increase would be typical for the third year of an economic recovery. Board members predicted that the pickup will trim unemployment from the 7.2% rate it unexpectedly fell to in November to 7% by mid-1985. They look for joblessness to remain stuck at that relatively high level through...