Word: trims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lower energy costs, however, would bring some benefits to help offset Mexico's woes. Reduced prices would trim inflation worldwide and thereby cut Mexico's interest bill. Economists estimate that a one-percentage-point drop in borrowing costs could save Mexico about $700 million in interest payments this year...
...certain. According to a recent poll, 54% of Kohl's Christian Democratic supporters favor some kind of postponement in deploying the weapons, as do 65% of Social Democrats and 70% of Free Democratic voters. As a result, many West Germans are calling for an "interim solution" that would trim the number of missiles on both sides or put off deployment while talks continue. Kohl has rejected any compromise, arguing that such a course would undermine the U.S. zero-option bargaining position at Geneva. But C.D.U. strategists concede that the Chancellor knows public opinion is running against him and would...
...elect Reagan to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Richard Schweiker, 56, wanted to be remembered as the Cabinet member who put preventive medicine at the top of the nation's health agenda. He will probably be better known, however, as the man who attempted to trim federal welfare rolls and overhaul Medicare and formally presented the Administration's plan to reduce Social Security benefits, a proposal that went down in a flurry of controversy...
...They met their Waterloo in the late '70s, when their pump-priming policies pushed up inflation. Says Allan Meltzer, a Carnegie-Mellon University professor and an influential monetarist: "If the Keynesian program had worked, Jimmy Carter would still be President." Although many Keynesians now want to trim the deficit, the recession has emboldened others to call for continued high deficit spending. Says Lester Thurow, a leading Keynesian who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "For the next four or five years the problem is how you get the economy moving to reduce unemployment. For a period...
...usually trim away the ivy from windows and bricks so we can fix loose mortar and open the windows," added an official of Northwestern's Buildings and Grounds department...