Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambodian border, and Routes 1 and 2 in the south. One of the first provincial capitals to fall, two weeks ago, was Kratie, which dominates the northern Mekong approach to Phnom-Penh. The Vietnamese and rebel forces reached the Mekong in several places from the Laotian border southward to cut off Phnom-Penh from the north...
Create Hot and Cold Dorms. David Edwards, plant director for Maine's Bowdoin College, has recommended that the deans ask students whether they're normally cold-blooded or hot-blooded. Edwards hopes to cut fuel bills by housing all the students who like it chilly in the same dormitory...
...Fools in 1964, they embarked on a six-year relationship that ended in 1970, when Marvin moved out and married Pamela Feeley, his high school sweetheart. Michelle, now 46, says that when she and Marvin split, he began paying her a stipend of $800 a month. But Marvin, 54, cut her off after a year, and she went to Mitchelson. He filed suit on her behalf, demanding full payment of what Michelle said Lee had promised her: 50% of the $3.6 million that Marvin accumulated mostly from movies, including Cat Ballou and The Dirty Dozen, while they were living together...
...probably floated right over the Concepción. The problem: his principal tool, an onboard magnetometer for detecting telltale aberrations in magnetic fields, could not be used effectively. Haskins' research had revealed that the galleon was outfitted with nonmagnetic bronze cannons and that its iron anchors had been cut loose in deeper waters. The ship's remaining iron artifacts, such as hull fittings and cannon balls, had slipped into coral crevices where the device could not detect them...
...will indeed compel executives to retire at 65. Their stated and valid reason is that new blood and new ideas are especially vital at the top. An unspoken but powerful reason is that every board member dreads telling a 65-year-old chairman: "Joe, you just can't cut it any more." It is much easier to say: "Joe, we would love to keep you, but a policy is a policy...