Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third quarter drive was easily the most impressive on the afternoon for the Crimson, as it drove 38 yards for a touchdown that cut the lead to 20-14. The line gave Linden time, as he was able to stay in the pocket and complete passes of 20, ten and five yards to junior Terrence Patterson and sophomores Josh Wilske and Grady Smalling, respectively...
Early action saw both teams fighting to establish the tempo, alternating between aggressive offensive attacks and cut-throat defense. Harvard countered Yale's scoring attack with James Hutcherson, an athletic freshman starting in his first game for the Crimson. Hutcherson consistently outleaped even the athletic Gould, who seemed frustrated with Harvard's swarming defensive presence...
There were signs of trouble even before Clinton came to Washington. In his 1992 campaign, he blasted the then Democratic House's "midnight pay raise," and even ran ads about it in New Hampshire. He railed against the 1992 House banking scandal and promised to cut congressional staffs by a quarter. Nor did the Democratic Congress have much experience working as a team with the Chief Executive. When Clinton took office, more than two-thirds of House Democrats and half of Senate Democrats had never served under a President of their party. Clinton aides called the relationship an "impossible embrace...
...arrangement with existing cellular dealers turns out to be a serendipitous marriage of marketing and technology. Without resellers, customers would be few, and without cell technology, service would be limited. At first Iridium planned a purist, sky-to-ground approach that would have cut out the local cellular-network middlemen. But that wasn't very feasible in the glass-and-steel canyons of bustling cities, where customers would be out of the line of sight of the heavens and service would be spotty. (Imagine explaining to an irked CEO that his pricey new handset won't work from his office...
Airline deregulation, instituted in 1978, has reduced competition, with major hub cities like Atlanta and Minneapolis dominated by a single carrier, which can virtually dictate fares. American Airlines, which dominates the market from Miami to the Caribbean, cut fares drastically a couple of years ago, when a reconstituted Pan Am came on the scene; only hours after Pan Am shut down last February, American's fares shot up. Miami travelers complain that American's busy schedule is something of a sham, with flights often canceled for mysterious reasons. On the route to Nassau, says Perla Martinez, a Miami travel agent...