Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Majmudar and Blake came out hot, taking an early two-break lead in the first set. With the score standing at 4-1, the Harvard pair had BYU on the ropes, leading 15-40 with the Cougars serving. BYU battled back, however, to take the game to cut the Crimson's lead...
...unfair tenure process, I am told, is not unusual at Harvard. Aspiring junior faculty who are cut down by it are expected to go away complaisantly...
Geico and State Farm have been among the leaders cutting prices, and others will be forced to match them. So pull out your policy and see if your insurer is following suit. If not, play hardball. As when asking for a lower credit-card or mortgage rate, if you make it clear that you're ready to shop around, you'll probably get the best results. Don't think it's worth your time? Fair enough. A 3%-to-5% reduction may not amount to much, and many companies will give it to you automatically when you renew. But chances...
MARGIN OF SAFETY For years, doctors have tried to spare women from having a mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ, a noninvasive form of breast cancer. Instead, they cut out only the cancerous cells and then irradiate the breast. Now a major report shows that women may be able to avoid radiation too--as long as doctors remove a 1/2-in. margin of tissue along with the problem cells. That sure beats getting zapped, which is expensive, time consuming and may make future mammograms difficult to read...
...Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has pinned her peace hopes on what she called a "double-magnet" strategy: pulling Russia toward NATO's demands so that it, in turn, would tug Belgrade. But Administration aides were worried that in the current chaos, nobody under Yeltsin "would be left to cut the deal...