Word: winnow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discover new styles she thinks may catch on. Periodically, samples are piled up in a conference room and scrutinized. The editors mince no words as they cast baleful eyes on the goods: "Oh, no," "Ghastly," "How horrible." Often they suggest one less button or one more pleat. Eventually, they winnow out the styles that appeal to them; then go off to persuade manufacturers to make the changes and stores to stock the clothes. Since the merchandise cannot be shown in the magazine until the stores are lined up, the editors often become as aggressive as any Seventh Avenue salesman...
...computer-operated, tape-fed typesetting machines, now installed or on order at two of Manhattan's six dailies (the Times and the Post). Management is equally concerned, and has offered to neutralize the threat by attrition: to let only death, retirement and resignation, and not the machines, winnow the present population of the composing room. This concert of minds speaks much more loudly than the niggling differences involved...
...task is to cut through the junk in the public mind by seeking the order that underlies the clutter of small events; to winnow out of the apparent what is the real; to cede to television and radio the mere repetition of activities and to look behind the bare event for meanings...
...should rest neatly by bedside or commode, and be consumed in modest chunks over a period of several weeks. As no pat theme lends coherence to the fall issue, nothing will be lost in the way of continuity. And, gourmandizing thus bit by bit, you will be able to winnow the tough from the tender, and wield the red pencil of your mind more boldly than the editors have done. After this belated moulting, the fall Advocate will be more fair than fowl...
...Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which provides that an offended nation may raise tariffs by an amount equal to any losses resulting from discriminating tariffs. The U.S. listed for retaliation 19 major items representing $111,500,000 in annual Common Market exports to the U.S., but it will winnow the list down to cover only $46 million-the amount by which it claims it has been damaged by the poultry tariffs...