Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apple pie a la mode is not the obvious self-indulgence it once was, but a vital, midday energy booster for a deserving workaholic. Whatever the reasons (or sweet excuses), desserts are back in style with a vengeance, in restaurants and bakeries, even as diet-obsessed Americans vow to cut their calories and cholesterol levels...
Every time Californians go to the polls, they are buried under a blizzard of ballot initiatives. This year they face 29 items that would do everything from cut auto-insurance rates to raise cigarette taxes. But none of the lot has aroused greater emotion than Proposition 102, which would abruptly shift the state away from the policies that have put California in the forefront of the fight against AIDS. It would make compulsory what has always been voluntary: the reporting and tracking of people who have had intimate contact with carriers of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS...
...uterine incision, which is now used in less than 1% of all caesareans, risk tearing along the scar. Their advice: better to have another C-section. But the vast majority of those who have undergone C-sections have had the preferred horizontal incision across the lower abdomen, or "bikini cut," and for them last week's announcement may finally break the old saw against vaginal delivery the second time around, and even the third...
Early 1989, the experts reasoned, would be the proper moment for a pragmatic new President to cut a deal with Congress, regardless of what was read on Bush's lips or how Dukakis blathered on about uncollected taxes...
...every day one gets to cut the Soviet Union in half," mused the National Geographic Society's chief cartographer, John Garver Jr. Indeed, on the new map of the world that the society is sending its 11 million members, the Soviet Union has lost 18 million sq. mi. -- more than two-thirds of the territory it appeared to encompass on the National Geographic's maps for the past half-century. The diminution, to be sure, is only on paper, but to millions of map readers the world over, perception is reality. And that reality is about to be changed...