An annual trim with shears and feeding with lime will keep it compact.
The wooden cottages have an almost alpine feel – with a bit of Caribbean gingerbread trim – and facilities include a laundry and a pool.
And it is always hard to trim tax expenditures such as the mortgage interest deduction and state and local tax preferences – especially now, at a moment when the economy is still recovering from a housing-led downturn and state and local governments still face significant deficits that need to be closed.
Positive US economic news, and this week's signs of agreement over the country's budget, have prompted increasing speculation the Fed might trim its $85bn a month bond buying programme.
Perhaps it's his youthful manner, the way Boyle seems to fizz with energy when he speaks, dressing like a thirtysomething – and sufficiently trim to get away with it – but the word that comes to mind when meeting him is one rarely applied to a man in middle age.
Exxon is beginning to cut costs: the company said last month that it would trim capital spending this year by 12%, to $34bn, and the CEO expects relatively low oil prices to stick around.
They conclude, wrongly, that this must mean there was plenty of fat to go at – and that there remains yet more to trim.
Broccoli, however, refused to trim the number of carriages to be used in a train chase, and insisted certain scenes be shot in Rome rather than London, despite inflated costs.
KESWICK: The foxhounds - seldom so-called here but more often referred to simply as "t' dogs" - have been back in kennels for some weeks now from the farms where they have been "walked" during the summer and are getting in trim for a hard winter's work on the fells.
It's important to brush every layer with melted butter – and make sure you trim the edges, rather than folding them in, so you don't end up with wodges of dry filo around the sides.
In effect, Media Lens is saying, they trim their sails and pull their punches to accommodate their paymasters, their presence in the paper's Comment columns little more than a gesture to pluralism or dissent.
