Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legislature will uphold its tenuous opposition to the death penalty in the face of your attempts to reinstate it. The legislature will also have to work hard to convince you not to remove any more necessary funding from important social programs just for the sake of a nominal tax cut...
...first game, the Huskies immediately jumped out to a 9-0 lead, but a kill by Forcum stopped the Crimson bleeding. Net violations by the Huskies and a critical kill by Jellison cut the Huskies' lead to 9-4, but kills by Northeastern's Catherine Baker and Knott sealed the Crimson's fate. The Huskies went on to win the first game...
...Atlantic Coast Championships, the Crimson needed to place in the top six of the 16 teams competing. Over the two-day, 14 race event, the women did not have their most consistent performance of the year, but nonetheless, they scrambled for sixth in total points and made the cut...
...weather the quick downshift. They are jettisoning the stocks and bonds of any companies that could stumble if the decade-old expansion turns to recession. But what happens if that severe slowdown doesn't hit? What if the Fed won't let it happen and moves aggressively to cut rates? Then Wall Street will have created the same sort of bargains that it does when it occasionally unloads drug stocks because of potential government regulation, or when it shuns tech stocks because a high-profile semiconductor or software company stumbles...
...believe, as I do, that the Fed's second, mid-October rate cut signals a vigilance that will avert a recession, you'll find great value in the so-called cyclical stocks and in high-yield or "junk" bonds. I have avoided junk for years because too many weak companies were able to borrow at rates only slightly higher than those paid by the strongest debtors. Confidence in the economy ran so high that even companies with no hope of making a profit this decade could tap the markets cheaply. Junk-bond investors weren't getting paid enough for their...