Word: cutter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earned a reputation over the years as the financial whiz of this industry. You invented frequent-flyer plans and supersaver fares. You are also known as perhaps the most relentless cost cutter in the business...
...Cedras had an attack of power hunger. Indeed, the lust for power was already in his veins, because of his training in an institution that manufactures cookie-cutter generals, all hungry to take over the reins of government. I appointed him, I was his friend, and now he is a killer of my people...
...Cuban immigrants are treated as political refugees and allowed to remain in the U.S. But almost all the would-be immigrants from Haiti are classified as economic refugees and sent back to their homeland. The disparity in treatment was vividly illustrated in early July, when a Coast Guard cutter intercepted a fishing boat carrying 161 Haitians and two Cubans they had plucked from a raft in the Caribbean. Both Cubans were permitted to stay in the U.S. All but nine of the Haitians were sent home...
...cities from Tucson to Tacoma, the term Los Angelization has become shorthand for the complex of urban problems that spring from trying to absorb huge influxes of new people. As residents of fast-growing Western cities contemplate the noxious haze descending on their skylines, the cookie-cutter subdivisions springing up on previously untrammeled hillsides and in pristine deserts, the freeway-choking traffic jams and the youth gangs dealing crack on their street corners, they fear that L.A.'s present could be their future, and the prospect throws them. When people in San Diego conjure up a Boschian vision...
...seems incredible that such a simple, even obvious premise -- that America's 18th and 19th century towns remain marvelous models for creating new suburbs -- had been neglected for half a century. Yet until Duany and Plater- Zyberk came along, even envisioning a practical alternative to dreary cookie-cutter suburbs had become almost impossible...