PEEKSKILL - IN its 14th year, Zephs' sits on the fringe of town here, its handsome brick face trimmed with dark green shutters and cup-and-saucer vines.
His face, trim and elfish in his author photo, was covered in a prodigious black beard.
For instance, the mayor has long said many city agencies have fat to trim, and yesterday he called for 15percentt cuts in all city agencies except the Fire and Police Departments and the Board of Education, which would face trims of 2.5percentt.
Some House Republicans are skeptical of the program, however, and — like other line items in the education budget — it could face trims or elimination as Congress works on its own budget and the administration's.
A character named Edward Kirby, we read, "was a zealous jogger whose clear eyes, lean face, trim stature and universally respected work ethic belied an undeserved reputation in the hostile Chicago press for excessive consumption of wine and beer".
Lets face it, trimming the public sector down and reducing the massive pension bill is impossible.
Lelay explains that there should be more storytelling in comics dealing with subjects other than punching Doomsday in the face or trimming Tony Stark's goatee.
Azad, meanwhile, flops in some kind of refuge center and finds work shaving the faces and trimming the nose hairs of the often-inebriated customers of a neighborhood hangout.
But the new employees also included veterinarians, boxing inspectors and cooks, suggesting the difficulty Mr. Paterson faces in trimming a large and complex state bureaucracy, which has about 200,000 employees — a number that is projected to drop slightly by the end of the fiscal year.
"But they haven't done a lot of thinking about the translation of those things into stories," said the 60-ish Mr. Bagwell, dreadlocks framing his strong face and trimmed beard.
