Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of Britons who are stockholders has almost tripled, from 7% to 20%, and the number of those who consider themselves to belong to the middle class has increased from 30% of the population to roughly 50% over the past eight years. Inflation has been cut from 18% to 4%. The Thatcher government has privatized state enterprises valued at nearly $30 billion...
...unfortunate consequence of the change was that reading period was cut short. "Students are constantly struggling for an extra day, but we just can't fit it in," Lobley says...
...major league baseball has no salary cap, and owners have turned to different tactics in order to keep salaries down. Last year, management cut the playing roster from 25 to 24 men--saving only about $100,000 per team...
About 10 percent of Harvard's male undergraduates are members of the exclusive final clubs. Two years ago, Harvard cut ties with the nine clubs and no longer provides heat and access to the Centrex phone system...
...final hours of the cicada's three-week life aboveground are played out as the female deposits hundreds of eggs in a series of pockets cut in twigs. Nine weeks later the microscopic nymphs hatch, drop to the ground and burrow down as far as 2 ft., where they grow, eat and await their coming-out 17 years hence. The fact that this brood will not reappear until 2004 is one reason scientists are reluctant to put too much of their time into unlocking the cicada's secrets. As Richard Froeschner, a research entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution, points...