Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Houston, the reigning world all-around champion, battles persistent pain from a stress fracture in her left wrist and the psychological pressure of being the person everyone else wants to beat. Shannon Miller of Edmond, Okla., who was sidelined in late March with a dislocated left elbow and bone chip, recuperated from surgery in record time, and is now stronger and more confident than ever. Spectators who favor a dynamic, explosive style will want to wager on Zmeskal. Those who appreciate technical brilliance and high-level difficulty, however, will prefer the graceful Miller...
...last week, the Democratic Party tried to present itself as a party of women and for women. Hillary R. Clinton's chocolate-chip and oatmeal cookies, distributed to delegates and journalists in Madison Square Garden, were only part of that effort. More important was the pro-choice, pro-woman rhetoric that inundated the convention. More important was the parade of women Senatorial and Congressional candidates that went before the assembled delegates and journalists...
...abandons unproductive oil fields and writes off other assets. Unocal plans to eliminate 1,100 of its 17,000 jobs worldwide, mostly in the U.S. And Mobil said it is paring 2,000 salaried jobs, or 9.5% of that group. The energy giants joined such diverse blue-chip companies as Hughes Aircraft and Aetna in declaring sharp cutbacks in this summer of economic discontent...
Even among Perot insiders, there is disagreement on strategy, and the high command has still not identified which voters to target. Press spokesman Jim Squires points to polls indicating a low number of undecided voters to back up his assertion that Perot must chip away at the supporters of both Clinton and Bush to win. "The task left now is to take the other guys' votes," he says. But Morton Meyerson, the chief executive of Perot's computer company, who is serving as a senior adviser to the campaign, advocates a broader appeal. "We're not going after anybody," claims...
Emack's fed us Chocolate, Vanilla and ChocolateFlake--their answer to chocolate chip. The icecream was icier and less creamy than the otherstores' fare. Chocolate was a bit bitter, with ahint of coffee flavor. The Chocolate Flakes in ourspecialty flavor were too small...