Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remain imperfect mainstays in the treatment of lice. "The pyrethrins [RID, Pronto and A-200 Pyrinate] aren't working as well as they used to either," says University of Miami lice expert Terri Meinking. Such insecticide products all have side effects. And none are 100% ovicidal, which doesn't cut it with today's "no-nit" policy in schools. Some parents have taken to dousing their kids' heads with kerosene, which is both highly dangerous and futile. "Another hot item," says Meinking, "is Front Line--the stuff they put on dogs for fleas...
...doesn't have much power, he had no choice but to build a big coalition, work with the Democrats and generally conduct himself in a way that offered a perfect contrast to the eye gouging going on in Washington. Together Bush and his coalition would pass the biggest tax cut in the state's history, reform its tort-liability system and boost reading scores enough to give him bragging rights on a national scale...
...ambiguities over Kosovo's political structures are especially ripe for the sort of chiseling Milosevic does so well. But for the moment, the time had come to cut his losses. It had been easy to ride out the first 30 days of air strikes, when bad weather and alliance timidity limited the damage Serbia suffered. But "he was feeling the pain" in the second month, says a U.S. intelligence officer, as NATO racked up 350 attack sorties every 24 hours. Bombs and missiles had blitzed much of Serbia's heavy industry, energy sector and transport network. Citizen morale crumbled under...
...Germans replaced complicity with denial ("We didn't know!"). Stalin, while in power, achieved mass complicity by betrayal. People knew exactly what was going on, and informed on others to save themselves. The poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in the Gulag, said bitterly, "Stalin doesn't have to cut heads off. They fly off by themselves, like dandelions." Lourie has ingeniously captured the moment when the Soviet air was filled with dandelions...
Spies says that "in a much simpler system where tuition was the only source of income" you could lower tuition, if you cut costs...