Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Victor Chang, a sophomore at MIT, said he was disappointed by the "cut-and-paste" similarity to a speech Ho gave at MIT's commencement last year...
...buckets by Sturdy and Janowski on nifty passing from Kowal and a couple of free throws by Gates cut B.U.'s lead to one with 5:39 remaining. The differential was no larger than four points for the remainder of regulation, leading up to Janowski's clutch free throws. Janowski scored Harvard's final 10 points in regulation...
...school bus, however, gave Arafat the cover he felt he needed to move. Arafat's forces added hundreds of detainees to the dozens it had already rounded up. In an unprecedented move, they put Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, under house arrest and cut off his phone line...
...breaks--to subsidize activities ranging from shipbuilding to coal research, from the sale of U.S.-made weapons overseas to peanut farming. Washington helps buy crop insurance for tobacco, builds roads into national forests for the timber industry, sells minerals on public lands at bargain-basement rates and offers cut-rate electricity for businesses like casinos. The Feds help shippers that use inland waterways and bail out American banks with loans gone bad in foreign countries. It's the U.S. government's cafeteria of corporate welfare, and it's draining more than a third of a billion dollars a day--more...
There is no starker example of the phenomenon of corporate welfare and vanishing jobs than General Electric Co. In 1986 GE, fresh from acquiring RCA, employed 288,000 workers in this country. By 1997 the number had fallen to 165,000. During the period that GE cut those 123,000 jobs in the U.S.--43% of its workforce--the company collected several billion dollars in corporate welfare...