Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Random House are no longer competing for books. Bertelsmann disagrees. "I've heard much concern about advances in the past six years," says new Random House head Olson, "and they have only moved in one direction." North. Facing his critics, he says, "We are not looking to cut back on imprints but to diversify. We brought out 1,500 new titles in North America last year...
...having haunting visions of long lines and $2.50-per-gal. gasoline, relax. When representatives of oil-producing countries meet in Vienna this week, they will try to avert the disaster that was arising because prices have been collapsing. Asia's stalled economies and a very warm winter have cut oil consumption way below what was projected for 1998. Result: a 50% plunge in oil prices from early 1997, to $13.31 per bbl. And with storage tanks brimming, the price looked poised to fall even further--to $10 per bbl., or lower...
...world's oil exporters were suddenly looking at a loss of revenues that could have exceeded $100 billion. That's enough petrodollars to get otherwise reluctant countries to negotiate, including OPEC members Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and non-OPEC Mexico. Their plan: cut back production to firm prices. And OPEC's tried-and-true remedy may work again. News of a pending deal pulled prices up to almost $17 a barrel last week. The market response indicates confidence that the exporters will make their cuts stick. And if they don't, prices will fall again...
Some readers will balk at these suggestions. They will tell us that the author has long since dropped dead, that no amount of careful study of words will get us any closer to the author's original meaning and that we might as well cut our losses and learn about ourselves. Ruskin might respond that these folks are not only mistaken, but proud besides. They ought to know their places; they ought to read to hear what experts have...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.: It'll be tough to claim that Federal District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright cut President Clinton, her former law professor, a break...