Word: cutting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bore?" This, of course, is the central Reagan conundrum that many biographers have tried to answer. As he seeks to answer it, Morris traces the life of the future, nearly godlike President through the eyes of the fictional Morris. There is an encounter on the football field: "The square-cut youth and I briefly exchanged glances... A million miles away a factory siren wailed. His purposeful body moved on, exuding liniment. I dropped the candy wrapper I had been holding--and as I reached for it, his wet sleeve brushed my hand...
...recalls, part of a sequence "we were not going to finish before lunch." A producer worried about the budget suggested he "broom out" some of the details and move on. But the film's star, George Clooney, stood fast. It was scenes like this that had induced him to cut his price in order to make the picture. Besides, Russell was certain that back in Burbank he had Warner Bros.' support. One of its senior executives had told him that if he couldn't occasionally green-light a movie like this one, he didn't want...
...talk to someone in person, and the branch customers wanted the convenience of trading online." So Schwab gave the customers what they wanted, uniting the businesses and dropping the cost of all trades to the online price--$29.95. Schwab took a hit in the short run, the price cut shaving about $125 million off its revenues in 1998. But the move has since paid off: Schwab's total number of accounts rose from 3 million to 6.3 million, and it's now the No. 1 online brokerage...
...that would hit companies with tax penalties if they switched to a cash-balance plan without giving all workers the option of staying in the old one. "Millions of Americans are feeling 'pension anxiety' because under current law there is no guarantee that their pension benefits will not be cut tomorrow," says Sanders...
...caretaker candidacy by a Gandhi no one had expected to go into politics. The true heir to the Nehru-Gandhi throne is Sonia and Rajiv's twentysomething daughter, Priyanka, who was easily the most charismatic thing about her mother's campaign. But unlike her predecessors, she may have to cut her political teeth in opposition rather than in power...