Word: trims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LEAN PROTEIN Researchers, knowing that a defective gene causes mice to grow fat, purified the protein produced by the normal gene, injected it into plump mice and turned them into trim little rodents. Now scientists want to know if that compound, called leptin, will work on people...
...veto signature over the Republican balanced-budget plan. To replace what he called the G.O.P.'s "extreme" and "wrongheaded" blueprint, which would remake the Federal Government in a more conservative image, the President presented Congress with his own balanced budget--his third of the year. Clinton offered to trim Social Security raises; to cut a bit more out of some domestic programs, including welfare; and to hold the line against deep slashes in education, environmental protection, health care and taxes. The G.O.P. response: Forget it. Further negotiations are scheduled...
...where they please and have "the unimpeded right to observe, monitor and inspect'' whatever they like. All sides, moreover, are committed to working out military parity. To accomplish this, the U.S. will equip and train the weaker Bosnian army while the Serbs, in turn, will be required to trim back their forces...
...professionals" controlling his effort, the men and women who view the Republican nominating electorate as more conservative than their candidate. Dole himself feels that dissonance keenly. His political soul is troubled. And with Powell gone, he must decide once again where he stands. Will he feel secure enough to trim his pandering? Or will he conclude, since he can no longer position himself as the best hope to stop Powell, that he must now move even closer to the far right's agenda...
Mike Lenich, from South Holland, Illinois, is learning. A quality-control supervisor for a public utility, Lenich shucked his $350-a-year health-club membership and takes daily walks instead. He and his wife Linda also trim costs by scissoring the Christmas cards they receive and making postcards from the unused parts. They buy most of their food in bulk and reuse their plastic sandwich bags. Patricia O'Leary, a bookkeeper from East Brunswick, New Jersey, has read 20 simple-living books and subscribes to three simplicity newsletters, which she says have helped her and her husband Daniel wipe...