Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American urge for home ownership and its coveted symbols -- a swing in the yard, idyllic neighborhoods and progressive public schools -- is so powerful that the commute is accepted as part of the natural price of the Dream, a bearable surcharge on happiness, part of being a Y-CHOP...
Several candidates said that while they oppose cutting funds to the classroom, much can be done to chop administrative costs within the system...
...unflinching portrayals of Latin lowlifes, louts and losers can trigger a painful catharsis. "Latin culture is very subliminal. There's still a lot of self-hate. It's underneath this mat and rug hidden in the basement, and it's the beast that wants to come out and chop our heads off. I'm letting out a lot of monsters...
...says and as Reagan would have us believe now. There wasn't a chance for democracy then. The Soviets weren't scared into negotiation by Reagan--in fact, his hard line was a setback for detente. Only the Soviet economic implosion, a process decades in the making, would eventually chop the Soviet Union's tentacles into Eastern Europe that had choked off democracy there for so long...
Last week President Mikhail Gorbachev took yet another chop at the monster. He appointed his close adviser Yevgeni Primakov to head the foreign intelligence division, which will become a separate organization...