Word: chop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, they were for a moment, because Crimson starter Bill Larson forced leadoff bitter Dan Costello to chop to third for one up, one down. Things fell apart just about then, however: a walk, single and walk loaded the bases, a two-base error brought two runs home and Yale was off and running. Then single, single, walk, single, double, single, two-base error, single and three-base error, and it was 11-0, with reliever Billy Doyle coming and going along...
...sense of the value of things. When copper prices begin to climb, urban vandals start pulling pipes out of abandoned apartment buildings. Gold prices soar, and thieves start ripping necklaces off passersby. Now, with aluminum prices on the rise (up 36% since 1979), black market entrepreneurs are starting to chop down and steal streetlight poles...
...market of students because of a drop in the college-age population--a large portion of which is cynical about the value of a degree in a world marked by rising tuition and cab-driving Ph.D.s. Compounding these problems is the Reagan-Stockman offensive against federal spending, which will chop away at college budgets throughout cuts in grants and student loans...
...When South Carolina Senator Ernest Rollings, ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee, moved the next day to chop $7 billion out of the $22 billion in cost-of-living increases likely next year, he lost by eight votes. The splintered Democrats could not prevent the Republicans from cutting Medicaid and unemployment compensation and other social programs $200 million more than Reagan had requested, and all but four went along with a move by Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum to lessen a cut in the lending authority of the Export-Import Bank, a step that benefits big corporations...
...Though the President calculated that his proposals would slash spending by $48.6 billion, the committee staff estimated the actual reduction at $42.9 billion. Of that, $8.8 billion is to be saved by administrative actions, leaving $34.1 billion, by committee arithmetic, that Congress is being asked to chop...