Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sort of the Sampson effect in reverse: after their first brush with success, ingenues chop off their locks as if to prove their power does not flow from their follicles. The most recently shorn is Felicity star KERI RUSSELL, who, by cutting her hair, banished one of the highlights of her show's first season. In the tidal wave of fame that followed the release of Pretty Woman, JULIA ROBERTS got cropped. And GWYNETH PALTROW ditched her do upon garnering acclaim for Emma. Maybe it's just a way to avert fallout...
...researchers also found that nearby animal bones dating from the same period had been butchered with stone implements. Cut marks on one antelope jawbone suggest that the hominids used a sharp stone flake to remove the animal's tongue. The leg bone of another animal is scarred by cuts, chop marks and signs of hammering, evidence that it was scraped clean of meat and bashed open to expose the nutritious marrow...
...cooking school and Take Charge Consultants of Downingtown, Pa. They are learning how to deal with limited resources and how to become more cross-functional, goals set by their manager. But for the past two hours the team has focused on whether or not to gratinee and how to chop garlic...
...would seem from the shrieking produced last week as the Republican-run House rammed through a measure to chop taxes by $792 billion over the next decade. President Clinton called that irresponsible behavior, fiscally speaking, and espoused a much smaller, $250 billion tax cut. Then he angrily vowed to veto the huge reduction...
Even after he retired in 1956 and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1962, Jackie continued to chop along the path that was still a long way from being cleared. He campaigned for baseball to hire a black third-base coach, then a black manager. In 1969 he refused an invitation to play in an old-timers' game at Yankee Stadium to protest the lack of progress along those lines...