Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distant from fashion journalism chattiness and cattiness as from university-press obfuscation. Her miscellaneous subjects are bound together by the particular and consistent kind of attention she pays them. When discussing, for example, Kafka, she talks of his clothes and confidently and convincingly takes her argument from the well-cut suits he preferred to the bodily architecture of Gregor, the cockroach protagonist of The Metamorphosis...
...immediate disadvantage of forcing the working poor to wait months for tax refunds that they have earned. The money from the EITC is often used to pay down debts or saved to generate interest, and to the working poor, if not to the government, a delay does mean a cut...
Even President Neil L. Rudenstine took the unusual step of writing personal letters to the heads of Harvard's individual schools asking them to comply to University guidelines and cut short any personal obligations to attend the high-level meetings...
Marshall wrote the court's majority opinion in a separate case that made it more difficult for plaintiffs to receive large amounts of money in punitive damages. As a result of the ruling, the damages awarded in Harvard's case were cut...
...Heavy losses in the Caucasus could prompt a backlash from Russian voters; meanwhile, the campaign has already drawn criticism from the U.S. and the European Union. That's likely to grow amid a burgeoning humanitarian crisis. More than 100,000 refugees have fled Chechnya since Russia began bombing and cut off gas supplies, and that number will grow if Moscow goes ahead with plans to cut Chechnya's electricity supply. More alarming, perhaps, is Putin's announcement on Monday that the refugees will be resettled in those parts of Chechnya now under Russian control. After all, the last Russian leader...