Word: cuttingly
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...recession and unemployment, and so he kept convincing himself that the dollar might be miraculously rescued by an improvement in the U.S. trade deficit (down from almost $3 billion in July to $1.7 billion in September), by passage of the long awaited and much battered energy and tax-cut bills, and by the President's Stage II anti-inflation program of wage-price guidelines. After all, money traders, finance ministers and central bankers agreed that the long decline had caused the dollar to be grossly undervalued. The greenback will now buy more coffee, clothes, steel or whatever when spent...
...drive was blunted when the government troops began to battle a well-equipped 25,000-man EPLF army, which occupies the territory's central and northern plateaus. In one futile assault on Eritrean positions near Keren, a human wave of more than 6,000 Ethiopian militiamen were cut down by rebels firing captured Communist artillery. Ethiopian Strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam, who had vowed to crush the rebels by Sept. 12, the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of the late Emperor Haile Selassie, ordered the execution of 700 officers and men he held responsible for the fiasco...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service has sent engineers back to the drawing board to eliminate the wall's "inhumane features." They did not, however, accept the satirical advice of Editorialist Sierra: "The fence should be constructed so it will not scrape or cut and it should be built by Mexican labor. After all, Mexicans know how to weave very well. Remember our baskets...
...Black Sea. Although they were avid hunters, they set a standard of orderly farming and cattle raising that has left its impact on European agriculture to this day. They were also expert ironsmiths who fabricated plowshares, scythes and even a primitive reaper two millenniums before Cyrus McCormick. They cut roads through the forests, sometimes paved them with timber and stone and rumbled over them in carriages that had wheels rimmed with iron. Above all, the Celts were superb storytellers who bequeathed a literary legacy ranging from the Arthurian legend to Tristram and Isolde...
High up on the list of American complaints is the sluggishness with which Japan has moved to live up to the trade agreement that was concluded with the U.S. last January. That pact pledged Japan to cut tariff walls and quotas, with the aim of bringing U.S.-Japanese trade back into balance by 1980. But there have been few signs that the promises are being kept, and trade hassles with the Japanese are still regularly in the headlines (last week's concerned Japanese import quotas on American beef and oranges...