Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaker also said Democratic candidate Michael S. Dukakis would drive Soviet tanks through Harvard Yard if elected, and that Quayle would have the courage to cut student loans...
Troops who earned just $100 a month bitterly resented having to bribe senior officers up to $300 for a promotion. Others complained of secondhand shoes and uniforms. At the same time, junior officers were cut out of the lucrative drug profits that commanders received from cocaine dealers, who in recent years have made Haiti a key transshipment point between South America...
John Sasso excels at a very simple thing: he listens. He fixes people with a steady gaze and, unlike most political operatives, does not cut them short. It is a disarming trait and not a parlor trick. Sasso actually takes what he hears and factors it into his plans. For he is, above all, a strategist, and any bit of stray information will be used to formulate his design...
...again be allowed to sell beer, wine and cognac -- but not vodka. The decree watered down Gorbachev's antialcohol policies of 1985, which produced long lines at state shops and a flood of black-market booze. Despite the softened stance on liquor sales, the Soviet leadership still hopes to cut alcohol consumption with a stepped-up public-education campaign...
When an assassin's bullet cut down popular Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986, many Swedes assumed that it had crippled his ruling Social Democratic Party as well. Scandals plagued the government of his successor, the stolid Ingvar Carlsson, and a swing toward conservatism among young voters seemed to make a change all but inevitable...