Word: trims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...procession creeps forward, passing the squat, faded hall of Hod Carriers Local Union 153, a one-story commercial social center (AVAILABLE FOR ANY OCCASION), the New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, white with green trim. Lead Me, Savior has followed Just a Closer Walk with Thee, and soon the dirge is What a Friend We Have in Jesus. The band is taking up The Old Rugged Cross as it comes to a halt under some towering live oaks: the front yard of Corpus Christi Catholic Church...
...large majority of all voters, however, agreed that inefficiency and corruption hamper state and local governments. Three-fourths of the 1500 who responded to the survey, conducted two weeks after the November 4 election, said state government was inefficient and could trim 15 per cent from its budget without reducing services. Sixty per cent said the same about local governments...
...hard-driving northerner, tanned, silver-haired, blue-eyed Armani remains as trim and fit as a male model half his age. His studio is in a 16th-century palazzo in downtown Milan. Despite the surroundings, he prides himself on "de-dramatizing" the female image. Armani maintains that "young women want to dress in a classic way, elegantly, but not a la Dior or Chanel in the '40s. Women today move differently. Today's body should not be confined by clothes that are too structured." Associates note that Armani collaborates closely with several women designers in his studio...
...White House. Reason: the CBO doubted that inflation and interest rates will come down anywhere near as rapidly as the Administration expects. Partly because of this gloomy forecast, Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee agreed during a six-hour meeting Monday night to support a move to trim cost-of-living increases scheduled next year in Social Security pensions and veterans' benefits, two programs that Reagan has ruled sacrosanct...
Yamashita, the soft-spoken chief executive, wears conservative business attire and lives in the rolling hills outside Osaka in a graceful seven-room house with immaculately pruned shrubbery. Trim and athletic, he favors a traditional Japanese diet. His breakfast that day consisted of grilled fish, rice and bean-paste soup...