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A panel of economists appointed by Congress is expected to propose a new inflation index to replace the Consumer Price Index . The new index will reduce the official inflation rate, thereby trimming annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other federal benefits.
A centerpiece of both tax cuts is a severe trimming of the capital-gains tax, which seems like a very odd decision at a time when short-term investing is on the rise and companies are having absolutely no trouble raising capital.
In an op-ed piece in the conservative Daily Telegraph, the president's chief British accuser, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, a former Washington correspondent, turned his fire on Starr, calling him "a trimming, limp-wristed procrastinator with the zeal of a plump sheep who works part-time on the job, craves approval and bears the imprint of the last person who sat on him."
One possibility is different degrees of trimming poor-quality sequences from the ends of ESTs (C.J.S.
Contigs with only one member EST (singletons) were removed from consideration until the trimming and cluster building stage.