Word: chopping
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...ninth of game two, but came back to win it 8-7 on a bases-loaded single from Cordero. I remember slapping a high-five with a middle-aged Japanese man standing next to me, as 40,000 some-odd fans cheered, mocking the Braves’ tomahawk chop. I know, because I was there. But 1994 was not the end. By 1996, the Expos had recovered and they stayed in the wildcard race until late September. I went to about 25 games that season, watching Henry Rodriguez set a then club-record of 36 home runs while being showered...
...hours to our little world—a beacon to students late for class and a constant reminder of the exacting pace of college life. Cambridge is a far cry from rural Canada, where I spent my summer camped in an eastern township of Quebec and had to chop wood in order to get a hot meal...
...feet and legs with a pipe until he could no longer feel them, thrashed his back and tied his genitals before forcing him to drink three bottles of water. At one point, Hadi says, he heard a knife being sharpened next to his ear. His interrogator threatened to chop off his head unless he confessed to collecting information for the U.S. forces. Hadi refused...
...companies with broad plans will cut back grants to the rank and file, while only a handful will cut equity-based compensation to executives. "We'd have to rethink our ability to provide stock options to all employees," says Marc Jones, CEO of Visionael, where the expensing rule would chop $1.5 million off reported profits...
...managed--its prospects looked bleak a few months ago. The telescope was facing eventual loss of power and gyroscope failure, which would cut short its life-span by years. But given President Bush's ambitious plans for a manned moon and Mars program, NASA was looking for projects to chop. A shuttle mission to service the Hubble seemed pricey and, after the loss of the shuttle Columbia, risky. So the agency said it would let the telescope expire...