"trim" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Yet while Mr. Giuliani has cut its budget by $73 million, or 12 percent, and proposed trimming more than 2,000 of the department's 10,568 civilian and uniformed workers, the effect has been outwardly negligible.
- She proposes trimming some fat from current programs.
- At a White House appearance before a strategy session with his economic advisers, Mr. Clinton said his budget for the 1998 fiscal year would propose trimming the growth in Medicare spending by $138 billion over six years.
- Yet the proposal is expensive, leading some in Congress to propose trimming the benefits.
- In the first major Congressional response to President Bush's drug strategy, Senate Democrats today proposed trimming other Government programs to come up with $2.2 billion more for anti-drug efforts than the President has already proposed.
- Indeed, Mr. Summers knows that a Congressionally appointed commission will soon propose trimming fund missions along the lines he suggests.
- To do more, Mr. Clinton would have had to propose trimming retiree benefits, perhaps by proposing to raise the eligibility age for Medicare.
- Aides said Mr. Dinkins would propose trimming more than 20,000 planned jobs from the city's work quarter-million-member work force, through a mix of layoffs, attrition and early retirements that was still being calculated last night.
- Nevertheless, the lower tax cut allowed him to propose trimming Medicare, Medicaid and other programs for the needy by about half of what the Republican-led Congress passed.
- Year after year, the Presidents proposed abolishing or trimming the same domestic programs, including mass transit subsidies, the Legal Services Agency and the Economic Development Administration; each year Congress continued the appropriations.
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