Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world groaning under the weight of more than 50,000 nuclear warheads, who would have thought the most promising attempt to sharply cut that frightening number could be stalled by a dispute over 72 aging missiles? Such a disagreement has emerged as a major obstacle to a U.S.-Soviet accord on intermediate nuclear forces (INF) that would ban medium- and shorter-range missiles in both Asia and Europe...
Enclosed please find a check for my outstanding balance as of my last received bill. Enclosed please also find my charge card, which you will notice I have cut in two. Although I first joined the Coop in September of 1959, when I arrived in Cambridge from Minnesota as a Harvard freshman. I wish to discontinue our association...
...deal, what are we supposed to do, jump upand down in anticipation?" Saunders said. "Are wesupposed to be grateful that [Bennett] is onlygoing to cut us 15 or 20 percent instead of 50percent...
...addresses of donors are carefully preserved in computer banks and used in direct-mail donation pitches, another major source of ministry income. At the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries headquarters, for example, workers used to extract some $2.5 million in monthly donations from occasional donors. That amount has now been cut in half...
...spoke with Salvadoran accents into a van outside the downtown-Los Angeles office of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, a group opposing U.S. policies in Central America. For several hours, she told police, she was kept blindfolded in the van as her abductors cut her hands, burned her with cigarettes and sexually assaulted her, while they questioned her about CISPES' activities and membership. When they set her free, says Corea, the kidnapers told her they had spared her life so she she could tell other refugees that "we are here...