Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traffic situation is equally strange. On any given day, you might see daredevil stunt drivers wearing hats and smoking cigars gunning their Cadillac Eldorados to speeds of 35 M.P.H. and beyond. You hear lots of horn-honking; the younger residents, their fuses cut to the quick, are simply venting their frustration and rage at the latest senile driving snafu. These people must nurse elaborate fantasies involving grey heads and sinister implements of torture...
...other myriad dangers that apparently make daily survival there a tenuous proposition at best. Armies of red "fire ants" gleefully attack those unlucky enough to step on their hills; their bites could (in those with the proper allergies) cause Death, according to the newspaper article she cut out on the subject. The blazing sun causes blistering skin cancer of the most painful sort in those not properly protected with sunscreen...
...second cut in line at lunch every day while at Harvard. Multiply 20 seconds (the time he added) by 100 (the approximate number of schooldays in a term) by eight semesters and you realize that he forced his housemates to wait an extra half hour for Harvard food...
Haig insists he has cut back on his private endeavors while running for President, and he estimates that he has given up $500,000 in speaking fees alone. But he sees no reason to curtail other business activities, including acting as a paid consultant to a South Korean conglomerate. "It's ludicrous to say that because you're running for President you can't eat," Haig retorts, eyes smoldering...
...Brady report identified portfolio insurance and index arbitrage as culprits in the Oct. 19 crash. Desperate to cut their losses when the stock market began to fall, money managers sold huge numbers of futures contracts. So many traders were following the same strategy that the downward spiral of prices accelerated in both New York and Chicago, and everyone got burned...