Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sight-seeing bus tour through the Rocky Mountains west of Denver is one of the nation's summertime spectaculars. But the scenic trip was tragically cut short for 28 vacationers last week when a 6 1/2-ton boulder careered 710 ft. down a mountainside, smacking into the side of their...
...this long-ball era, some people think pitchers should be permitted any device. Though the legend is that slippery pitches (spitballs, grease balls, cut balls) were banned in 1919 to facilitate more Babe Ruths, hygiene was at the heart of it. Like the players in those days, the balls were expected to remain in the game a little longer than they are today, and fielders were complaining about the sickly colored, gouged and slobbered-up baseballs...
...their way to a bright new management team -- imported from Paramount and Warner Bros. -- that will restore the company's fortunes. But this seems more luck than foresight. Reality omits two things that old Walt would never have left out of a cartoon: an unambiguous hero and a clear-cut moral...
Many entrepreneurs suffer from shaky financing, but few are cut off by their own fathers. That is the predicament of Robert Guccione Jr., 31, who is editor and publisher of Spin, a pop music magazine. Penthouse Publisher Robert Guccione Sr., 56, has decided to stop providing money to keep Spin spinning...
Then it was the turn of the U.S., which cut off all aid to the Noriega regime on July 22. In a bid to tie Washington directly to the alleged opposition conspiracy, the progovernment Panamanian newspaper Critica charged that U.S. Ambassador Arthur Davis had arrived at the Crusade offices around the time of the police raid. The U.S. embassy called the allegation...