Word: chopped
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Despite the politically incorrect Native American motif of the 91st World Series--the Tomahawk Chop of the Braves vs. Chief Wahoo of the Cleveland Indians--the first Fall Classic in two years should turn on a lot of people. It's North vs. South, the best in the American League vs. the best in the National, a team starved for a world championship because it hasn't been in the Series too often vs. a team starved for the title because it has been in the Series all too often. But the most intriguing matchup of all is the most...
...bold spending cuts designed to balance the budget by 2002. Senate leaders proposed slashing nearly $1 trillion during the next seven years. A House plan foresaw even deeper cuts: $1.4 trillion worth, the extra trims needed to offset a $350 billion tax cut. The G.O.P. lawmakers said they would chop billions from projected outlays for Medicare and Medicaid, eliminate scores of federal social programs and abolish the Commerce Department. (House Republicans would also ax the Education and Energy departments.) Democrats promptly labeled the proposals unfair to working families, the elderly and the poor, and warned that the cuts were dangerous...
...They faltered in the conditions and we tookadvantage of it," White said. "We had been rowingthose conditions all week. We had been practicingracing in head winds and chop. We went down thereexpecting it to be like that...
THERE WERE THREE BUBBAS, TWO POOKIES, ONE Tookie, a Pork Chop, brothers Motorboat and Speedboat Jones, Ted Williams (no relation), Pete Rose (relation), an Evers, a Chance and a lot of stinkers. They came in sizes ridiculously large and incredibly small, ages old and older. They had worn the uniforms of the Brasschaat (Belgium) Braves and Melbourne (Australia) Monarchs. They gave up day jobs like stockbroker and bag boy and minister and fireman and even sportswriter. They all had the same dream, though, the same faint hope that they would appear in a major league box score for the first...
...Harvard Dining Services specialty that has intrigued me most, however, is not a regional food, so far as I can tell: American Chop Suey. I know you've wondered about it, too. What the hell is American Chop Suey? John Shaffer, Assistant General Manager at the Freshman Dining Hall, explains, "American Chop Suey was based on the idea that chop suey was a whole bunch of stuff mixed together, so people used to take leftovers at the end of the week, grind up the meat, and mix it up." This may not sound too reasuring, but Shaffer further clarifies, "However...