Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...post," says police commander Dave O'Malley, and as he begged for his life, they "beat him and beat him." Perhaps as an afterthought, police say, the pair took Shepard's wallet and his shoes. The back of his head bashed to the brain stem, his face cut, his limbs scorched with burn marks, Shepard hung spread-eagled on a rough-hewn deer fence through a night of near freezing temperatures, unconscious and losing more and more blood. On the evening of the next day, 18 hours after he was abandoned, two bicyclists saw him. At first, they thought they...
Toys "R" Us faces quickening competition from such all-purpose discount stores as Wal-Mart and Target. Its bloated inventory system costs hundreds of millions of dollars each year. It must somehow cut costs while remodeling stores and bolstering employee training and service. And Toys "R" Us managers can only pray, as they do each fall but even more so this year, that among the new toys they have bought by the trainload are a few hits--the Tickle Me Elmos and Power Rangers--that will fill parking lots with minivans...
...encouraging shoppers to expect everything to be on sale all the time. "The category killers are going to have to live with lower profit margins going forward," says Gustafson. That is good news for the consumer, but not for shareholders who have watched Toys "R" Us' stock price get cut in half over the past 12 months, to a little more than $16 a share...
...quarterback Ron Jaworski said that's the NFL today. "You pay these guys, and you throw them out there" whether they're ready or not. Back in the days before remote control, promising young quarterbacks sat on the bench for a while, and went to school on the crew-cut masters...
...Fine Young Man and William Pollack's Real Boys, focuses on boys' emotional crises and academic problems in reading and writing. Researchers are exploring not just sexual harassment of girls but bullying and teasing of boys. A rash of school shootings by boys has brought calls to cut back on violent video games and provide more in-school counseling. And parents are objecting to certain excesses: "Is it really fair," wrote Kathleen Parker, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, "that one of [my son's] feminist teachers refuses even to use male pronouns, referring to all students as 'shes...