Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stand was typical of what Joe Restic called his "championship defense" all day long. Not only on the big plays--the interceptions, the fumbles and sacks--but on the little ones, too. Defensive back John Casto, who grabbed two fumbles, cut off Hill's usually lethal end runs and both Yale quarterbacks wore defensive end Dave Otto like a 6-ft. 4-in. necklace...
...cycle of styling jeans will have run the gamut when they are worn with one leg cut off at the crotch and the other ankle length...
Finally, at an altitude of 8,200 ft., the track breaks through onto a rolling plateau of sagebrush, juniper and pine. It is here, on this remote plateau, southwest of Rifle, Colo., that Caterpillars of the Colony Development Operation have already cut 300 yds. into a mountain of shale. Near by, in another canyon, Union Oil engineers monitor a conveyor belt delivering a stream of shale into a giant funnel. Some 40 miles south, at Logan's Wash, Occidental Petroleum miners have cut two mine faces into the sides of a shale mountain. Farther northwest lies another tract...
...housing industry. Last week the National Association of Home Builders called an emergency meeting in Washington to bewail the high mortgage rates. The group's economist, Michael Sumichrast, darkly predicted that housing starts, which ran at a 1.9 million annual rate in September, will soon be cut in half. The soaring cost of money, he claimed, has already forced 10 million Americans to abandon temporarily plans for that dream house...
...market and threatened that if its regular customers did not pay the price, NIOC would refuse to renew its supply contracts when they expire in December. Exxon, Shell and British Petroleum got telex notification from NIOC that their anticipated deliveries for the last three months of 1979 were being cut by approximately 5%. NIOC blamed "operational difficulties," but many oilmen suspected that the missing petroleum would soon enough turn up for sale on the spot market. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia was hinting strongly that early next year it will cut as much as 1 million bbl. a day from its production...