Word: trims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years community residents have battled with the developers over the size and nature of the project; last week, most of them pledged to drop their opposition if the builders would agree to trim the size of the shopping mall portion of the project drastically, which locals had feared would attract too much traffic...
...special deduction to help trim the so-called marriage penalty, a decade-old fluke in the tax tables that requires husbands and wives who both work to pay higher taxes than two unmarried wage earners living together. The change could save couples hundreds of dollars...
Detroit now readily admits that in comparison to the Japanese, it has been seriously deficient in the area of "fits and finishes," the production imperfections like badly hung doors and poorly fastened trim. At its Fisher Body plant in Fairfield, Ohio, GM put a Toyota Celica on display alongside an Oldsmobile Omega to let workers see the difference...
Carter is also accurate when he contends that he has boosted defense spending 4% a year in real terms since he took office. But he skims over the fact that he campaigned vigorously in 1976 to trim the Pentagon budget, and early in his Administration boasted of cutting some $7 billion from the defense spending urged by Ford in his last year in office. As Reagan charges, Carter canceled such key weapons programs as the B-l bomber and the neutron warhead. In rebuttal, Carter claims that the B-l was obsolete and that his Administration is considering developing...
...Carter's inner circle, Mondale is looking forward eagerly to a strenuous regimen of four-day-a-week campaign swings, making slashing attacks on Ronald Reagan and defending the Carter record. Mondale seems not the least bit uncomfortable in this role, even though it has required him to trim many of his longstanding liberal views, which at one time placed him close to Edward Kennedy on many issues. Mondale's stomach is flat-thanks to tennis-and his face deeply tanned -thanks to a few days of fishing for striped bass off New Jersey. At breakfast last week...