Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play was set up when Columbia forward Kriszen Williams broke in behind Harvard's defenders. Harvard senior goalkeeper Jennifer Burney charged Williams to cut off her shooting angle...
...when Yeltsin ordered tanks to fire on the parliament building to dissolve a rebellious legislature. Meanwhile, governors across Russia began to act on their own to replace the central government that had vaporized three weeks earlier. From Kaliningrad to Yakutia, provincial leaders decreed price controls, slashed taxes and cut off payments to the Russian Federation. "Forget about Moscow," Governor Aman Tuleev of Siberia's Kemerovo region advised his staff...
...their ability to uphold professional standards through fair testing may be compromised. After all, learning disabilities are more difficult to pin down than physical disabilities. It is not always easy to determine whether an applicant learns differently yet is perfectly competent, or whether he or she simply can't cut...
Japanese prime minister Keizo Obuchi couldn't come to Washington next week with an empty briefcase. That's why he cut a deal with his political opponents Friday over stalled banking reform legislation -- a deadlock that had exasperated Washington. "This appears to be an important step, but they still have a major chasm to cross," says TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl. "At least now Obuchi has some news for President Clinton. It would have been terribly embarrassing for him to come to Washington with no plan to reform his country's banking sector, which many see as a crucial step...
...have felt very wealthy the past several years," Baumohl says. "Now they're getting worried." And the funny thing about consumers is that when they start to fear a recession -- after, say, watching their stock portfolios grow sickly since July -- they end up creating one. "If people do indeed cut sharply back on spending, it could accelerate any downturn the U.S. has, in both speed and severity," says Baumohl. "Consumer spending accounts for two thirds of all U.S. economic activity." So be warned: If the recession comes, you'll have no one to blame but yourself...