Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus the main attempt at Tokyo will be to devise a joint three-pronged strategy to 1) cut consumption in order to reduce imports, 2) spur greater effort in developing alternative energy sources, and 3) form a united purchasing front. If forceful joint action can be decided in all three areas, some slack could be reintroduced into the world oil market and some sanity returned to its pricing. In Paris last week, "Sherpas"-the foot-slogging diplomats and economists who have been preparing the climb to the summit for four months-were still poring over a number of possible actions...
...Administration's recent decision to subsidize the import of such middle-distillate petroleum products as diesel fuel and heating oil,* which the Europeans see as a hasty overreaction that sets a dangerous precedent. Said one U.S. official: "I haven't seen the Europeans so mad since we cut off their soybean supplies...
...Tories cut income taxes-and risk inflation...
Campaigner Margaret Thatcher promised to cut taxes and reduce government spending. Prime Minister Thatcher last week began to live up to those promises. As Labor M.P.s in the House of Commons jeered, Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, presented a tough new budget that was designed, he said, "to restore incentives and make it more worthwhile to work...
...yacht off Monte Carlo. When he calls, she jumps, and all this abrupt, unexplained commuting takes its toll on Martin. A decent director (rather than the inept Anthony Harvey) might have spared her some of her most embarrassing moments, either with some lively, distracting staging or by simply calling "Cut" sooner...