Word: cutback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still not in field goal position because it was going against a 25 mph wind, Harvard gave it to Menick twice for six yards. He then broke up the middle on a cutback to the Princeton 9 for a first down on third-and-4. Before the drive, the Crimson was 2-of-12 on third down conversions, but Harvard found a way to execute when it mattered...
...Maranzano was too late. He was killed by police impersonators, hit men provided by Lansky and mutual friend Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel. More rubouts followed, in a well-orchestrated cutback of old-time Sicilian gangsters. Yet Luciano's management style would be far different from that of his Chicago counterpart Al Capone, who spent more time killing than doing business...
...hard work, Menick scored on a cutback to his right from 10 yards...
...encourage greater use of environmentally friendly technology. The first can mean higher energy taxes; the second can mean more expensive machinery, although some experts argue that the switch doesn't have to cost a lot more. Last month the Department of Energy released a report saying a 20% cutback to 1990 emission levels would be possible by 2010 without raising energy costs, through the spread of new technologies and finely targeted incentives like tax breaks for old coal-fired power plants...
...University not only because it is part of the Ivy League but also because of its reputation in women's gymnastics. The call from Providence, Rhode Island, though, was to inform her that Brown's athletic department was eliminating four sports, among them women's gymnastics, in a budget cutback. "I was devastated," recalls Stern. "I wanted the best academics and the best athletics. Brown's team had won the Ivys the year before. I had already turned down full rides at Berkeley [California] and Illinois." Stern and other female athletes eventually filed a class action against the university...