Word: chop
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...Sawat's advice seems to have little effect as I drive the ball 200 yards?mostly straight up?while my adversaries launch towering 250-yard blasts. They reach the 339-yard par 4 in two; I chop through jungle and sand to land in four. But I still have a chance to catch up on the green. I'm zenning over my putt when Sawat surprises me by picking up the ball. She lines up the putt then draws an imaginary arc where I'm supposed to roll it. "Left to right," she says, pulling the flag to pinpoint...
...early enough in the morning that most businesses were still closed, so Howe did what any resourceful Harvard student would do—he took the truck to an illegal chop shop. There he encountered the proprietor of the establishment, who was in the midst of using the bathroom with the door open...
After making hasty introductions, Howe arranged for the chop shop owner to remove the lock from the truck with an arc welder. In return, Howe provided him two bottles of whiskey...
That tranquility emerged, remarkably, out of months of screaming chop-saws. Soon, though, Parlato says he will probably have to dismantle the tons of material used in his installation...
...world (with an estimated net worth of $10 billion), is not one to throw good money after bad. He has frequently stated that not getting too attached to any investment is one of the greatest psychological edges he has. "He is very pragmatic and unsentimental," says Ingelbrecht. "He'll chop something off at the knees if he doesn't think it is going to work." Even in telecom he has demonstrated a willingness to pull the plug on failing ventures, as he did in 1994 with Rabbit, an ill-fated early phone service, after more than a year of operation...