Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cut its deficit to 4-3, with a 6-3, 6-3 victory at first doubles...
...Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, complains of being faced with an "impossible choice between fixing up dwellings or fighting drugs -- and you have to do both." Moreover, housing officials are going to have less and less money for either task. HUD modernization funds are scheduled to be cut by $649 million next year, to a total of $1 billion. The cost of rehabilitating public housing across the U.S. is estimated at $20 billion. The cost of eradicating drugs from the projects is incalculable...
While Drexel's case is extraordinary, other investment houses are going through wrenching changes in their corporate culture as executives search for ways to cut the fat. In Chicago brokerages are passing up the chance to rent $55,000-per-season "skyboxes" in Wrigley Field, even though treating clients to a Cubs game is a traditional way of bringing in new business. Many superstar brokers now make their own telephone pitches to court new clients, and brew their own coffee, after losing the assistants who handled those chores. Even senior partners are being laid off when their sales volume dwindles...
Scientists are also reaping rewards from 3-D visualization. By studying insulin molecules modeled on a computer, the Danish biotechnology firm Novo- Nordisk was able to create a synthetic insulin that did not clump when injected into the blood, an insight that cut three years off the usual eight- year research-and-development cycle for a new drug. By displaying weather data on a computer, researchers at the University of Illinois have been able to capture the exact moment when a tornado forms within a thunderstorm, a breakthrough that if incorporated into an early-warning system, could one day save...
...example." Environmental groups hope so as well. The U.S. imports about $30 million worth of ivory annually. Much of it is illegally harvested in a slaughter that each year wipes out nearly 100,000 of Africa's elephants, reducing their current numbers to as few as 600,000. To cut demand, the African Wildlife Foundation, a Washington-based group, has written letters to 11,000 jewelers in the U.S. asking them to stop selling ivory products. Several major retailers, including Macy's, have already agreed to phase out ivory sales...