Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard hurler Lora Rowning pitched the first game and was greeted by a two-run homer by Nancy Fox. Harvard cut the deficit to one run in the bottom half of the first when Beth Reilly singled Nancy Prior home...
However, the dramatic dimension could have profited from from a generous dose of hamming-up. Though Gilbert does not provide any really smashing leads in the script (he tends to be rather too egalitarian with character development in this one), more of the players should have cut loose and been perhaps a tad self-indulgent...
While retailers often have to cut prices to move merchandise, the cost of importing many of the products they sell, including apparel, has surged because of the fall in the value of the dollar. The result is a severe squeeze on profits. The industry benchmark for an acceptable annual profit is a 15% return on stockholders' equity. But a survey by Management Horizons of 300 large U.S. retailers showed that only 33 of them have met that minimum standard for the past three years. Some of the others may not be around a year from now. Warns K mart Chairman...
...street. If you just take a nap, you've lost it. It's as tough as I've ever seen." The company is looking for ways to lure customers into the stores. Some K marts have installed branches of First Nationwide bank. In an effort to change its cut-rate image, K mart has been refurbishing many of its stores to give them a glitzier look...
Young Communists vacuum-clean the streets, and workers paint green leaves on trees. Monuments are scrubbed with Yugoslav shampoo, and telephone lines cut by the Germans in World War II are at last repaired. Since Gorbachev was once party secretary responsible for agriculture, a committee of scientific experts is convened to consider "How many nipples on a cow's udder?" The answer: "It appears that there are four, although the cow was given a plan for five." Hard-to-get consumer goods arrive in shops overnight, goods that "we thought were entered in the Red Book," a Soviet compendium...