Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these claims, though they agreed to examine more of the U.S. evidence this week. Privately the Reagan Administration warns that it may name five West German companies, two in Switzerland and some in unidentified other European nations that are involved in the Rabta project if their governments do not cut off such help to Gaddafi...
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG: AMERICAN DREAM (Atlantic). The title cut on this reunion album delivers more bounce -- as well as a bit of bile -- than the rest of the album combined, but the guitar work has some fire and those famous harmonies can still soar high...
...painful as the task may be, economists insist that the deficit must be cut. Says Norman Robertson, chief economist of Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh: "The most important factor in determining whether we have a recession in the next two years is going to be whether we adopt a credible deficit- reduction program...
...knew he was going to be killed. The Amazon environmentalist had already escaped three attempts on his life. The fourth, just before Christmas, proved fatal. When Mendes, 44, stepped from his house in the Brazilian jungle town of Xapuri to take a shower in his backyard, a single shot cut him down. Two police guards assigned to protect him were in the house with Mendes' wife and two of their children...
Such transactions are illegal only if they can be proved to be clear-cut bribes that elicit favors in return. Thus prosecutors are looking closely at cases in which Recruit may have got something for its generosity. One such transaction is NTT's purchase in 1986 and '87 of two U.S.-made Cray Research supercomputers, which the utility in turn sold to Recruit. Investigators are looking into the possibility that NTT officials gave Recruit a special deal on the machines...