Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marine One finally headed back towards Boston, Holy Cross drove 63 yards to set up Scott Kania's 28-yd. field goal and cut the deficit to four. The Crusaders would outscore Harvard, 21-3, the rest of the game...
...There are two locations where we're going to remove about two or three feet of asbestos on two pipes, in order to cut into some valves," he said...
...there are substantial areas in the state where the soil is too fragile to bear the ravages of machinery. So the brunt of cost consciousness falls on the cutters, who invariably take their lumps. They are routinely cheated of some time spent in the fields. They are expected to cut and stack one ton of cane an hour. Those who fall behind are "checked out," deprived of any pay they may have earned that day and sent back to their barracks, which in many cases resemble prison camps. As the ultimate penalty, laggards or troublemakers can always be deported...
After eight months in his mahogany-paneled office overlooking the Lincoln Memorial, First Friend Baker is not even running foreign policy -- the President handles that. After a rocky start in a new field, the legendary political operative is still taking lumps from critics who argue he is quick to cut a deal, such as the bipartisan accord on Nicaragua, but slow to present a consistent strategy for critical areas like Eastern Europe and the Middle East...
...that year helped his team win the Japan Series. Then in May 1988, the idolized Bass left Japan to be with his son, who was undergoing brain surgery in the U.S. The team slumped, and Bass's absence offended many Japanese; they could not forgive him. The Tigers cut him and then quibbled over paying his son's medical bills...