Word: cutter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also at hand was the 15,000-pound "daisy cutter" bomb. Dropped from C-130s, it would be used to clear minefields in advance of a ground attack, said U.S. officers in Riyadh who spoke on condition of anonymity...
...Tommy Darnell, 29, was a skilled sheet-metal cutter at General Dynamics until he was laid off last month along with 3,500 other Fort Worth workers. Says he: "I guess I might have to write off 10 years of experience...
...than a 24-hour-a-day job," says Schott, 62. Nonetheless, she has managed to turn around the fortunes of the red-hot team, which lost $4 million the year before she came aboard. Attendance has jumped 85% during her tenure, to 2.4 million this season. An intrepid cost cutter, she canceled Riverfront Stadium fireworks displays, and signs all checks for the team herself. "Daddy always taught us it wasn't right to waste money," says the chain-smoking Schott. "When I see someone cheat for two bucks it makes me want to throw up." She was devastated...
...Rappaport has focused so much on negative issues is no mystery: He has no record of his own to stand on. Thirty-four years old, with gobs of money from his and his dad's real estate dealings, Rappaport is cut from the same cookie cutter that gave us our illustrious vice-president. (Kerry aides joke that Rappaport is Dan Quayle minus the intelligence.) Rappaport's campaign has focused on few issues other than Kerry's alleged misdeeds, and the need to keep down income taxes on the wealthy (i.e. on him) for the sake of the national economy. Even...
...polar regions. Ants turn more soil than earthworms; they prune, weed and police most of the earth's carrion. Among the most gregarious of creatures, they are equipped with a sophisticated chemical communications system. To appreciate the strength and speed of this pesky invertebrate, consider that a leaf cutter the size of a man could run repeated four-minute miles while carrying 750 lbs. of potato salad...