Word: trims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With the stock market going down and other uncertainties, people will trim their giving," Pierson says...
...with the new fashion program, which is a little like watching your Great-Uncle Roger show up for a guest shot on Yo! MTV Raps. The standard-issue Brooks Ivy League sack has been supplemented with svelter models priced from $395 to $695 that offer a little trim of the trousers and some tuck at the waist, so the suit looks more Polo and less Organization Man. It was Ralph Lauren who modified and merchandised the Brooks Brahmin look into his own house style, which might be called Long Island Anglo: jackets more suppressed in the waist and side vented...
...applying such liberal litmus tests ascapital punishment (Weld is in favor of it) toMedicaid (he wants to trim it), left-leaners havefound the former U.S. attorney too far to theright for their liking...
...widow. Yet while only 5% of the elderly have incomes below the official poverty level of $5,947 for a single person and $7,501 for a couple, 1 child in 5 lives in poverty. Even some senior citizens' groups have started paying lip service to the need to trim spending on affluent older people to free up funds for nutrition, schooling and health care for impoverished kids. One obvious way: subjecting Social Security and Medicare to means-testing so that benefits would be pegged to a recipient's ability to pay for the services independently. Another option...
HARVARD has decided to trim its spending. And students, totally unrepresented in the budget process, risk bearing the brunt of the fiscal nips and tucks...