Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...progress in talks to cut the two sides' arsenals of strategic weapons slowed to a crawl because of the U.S. election campaign and problems including continued differences over Reagan's "Star Wars" program for a space-based defense against nuclear attack...
...When you think about it, all this pre-menstrual screaming and yelling is reminiscent of nothing so much as the whining and complaining that we used to associate with funky female folkies. Methinks that the band doth protesteth too much, and this lack of subtlety, this blunt polemicism, can cut an album but it can't cut an attitude...
Disney asked Lee last year to help promote the release of the Lady and the Tramp cassette, paying a $500 "honorarium" -- her only share of the video's $100 million in revenues. Lee contends she deserves a larger cut on the ground that her 1952 contract denied Disney the right to make "transcriptions for sale to the public" without her O.K. Disney states only that the suit is "without merit...
Iran's acquiescence may enable the group, which has suffered from sagging prices, to cut output to 18.5 million bbl, a day from its current runaway level of about 22 million bbl. Members hope the reduction will boost oil prices from about $12 per bbl. to the $15 range. Past agreements, however, have been stymied by members cheating on their quotas...
...only is Bush experienced but the governing team he is assembling is cut from the same cloth as those who are making the recommendations. In a few cases, they are one and the same. For example, Brent Scowcroft, named last week as Bush's National Security Adviser, was a member of the team that concocted the Ford-Carter American Agenda. Richard Darman, whom Bush tapped as head of the Office of Management and Budget, is a trustee of the Brookings Institution, which has produced two major transition reports...