Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably a faux-pas beyond even the smoothest of diplomats to simultaneously vow to remove a nation's leaders and then invite them over for tea and deal-making. Perhaps this is the most important lesson from the corrosive experience of Iraq, we must be careful not to cut connections with powerful despots, for they may be our only chance to help their nation's people. As we stare into the eyes of Slobodan Milosevic today, and the leaders of Indonesia, Pakistan, North Korea or China tomorrow, we cannot overestimate the power of the peaceful solution and working through...
Harvard officials opened dorms early, cut short some Freshman Outdoor Program trips and rescheduled opening exercises to accomodate students observing the holidays, but Hillel leaders said the confluence still made for a stressful weekend...
...finally got on the board when Denise Peters scored an unassisted breakaway goal to cut the lead...
...before because I thought they were going to throw me into the fire. The rebels were laughing and making jokes, except for the man who had picked us out. His face was bad, so dark it was blue--you couldn't see any sign of laughter in it. He cut us with the ax one by one. I was number five. The adults were begging, and the children were crying. They put my hands on the ground and cut them off quickly, the left first. I didn't feel anything, or just something like a sting. Everything went dark...
CATCH YOUR BREATH You don't have to work up a sweat for a healthy heart. A major study on 72,500 middle-aged women finds that walking briskly for 30 minutes a day can cut the risk of heart attack up to 40%. That's about the same benefit as from jogging and other vigorous exercise for half that amount of time. A stroll through the mall won't do: you have to move at least 3 m.p.h.--or about a block a minute...