Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mujahedin will need all their reserves next spring, when the end of winter will signal the final push on Kabul. Massoud told TIME he intends to cut off major highways into the capital, then take on outlying garrisons. At the same time, he plans to launch a campaign of disruption inside Kabul in an effort to spark a popular uprising as food grows scarce. "We have put considerable effort into organizing the resistance inside the cities," he explains, "and we now have an extensive underground network." In the meantime, Jamiat and other resistance groups are keeping up the pressure...
...call it a user fee -- would yield an additional $4.6 billion that could be earmarked for health care. That revenue would be only half the benefit. Kenneth E. Warner, a professor at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, estimates that doubling the cigarette tax would cut the population of teenage smokers by 17%, protecting more than 800,000 young Americans from cigarettes. Governments at all levels should also push for further restrictions on smoking. Airplanes were a first step. Hospitals could be a next step, then perhaps schools...
Last week the FDA got a chance to play hero when it announced a streamlined procedure that could cut the time it takes to develop and market a new drug from eight to as little as three years. The new rules will affect only medications designed to treat seriously debilitating or life-threatening illnesses such as AIDS, some forms of cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Moreover, the regulations will probably disappoint many people because it will still take years for most drugs to pass through the agency's approval pipeline...
...wouldn't your suggestion to cut the benefits for the aged lead to a kind of triage in that a certain number of them will be allowed to die because they will not be eligible for life-prolonging care...
...next bar, we ran into Chris and Pablo hanging out around a parking meter. We stopped to chat, uncertain whether to take a place at the end of the long line outside the Boathouse (56 JFK St.). But, upon seeing our friend Ken already in line, we cut in midway. No one grumbled...