Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presentables -- including a good-looking network reporter with nothing on his mind but making it. Does an avid stockbroker, like the one in Wall Street, want to make a quick kill? Then he will sell himself to the nearest killer -- a raider who is part Ivan Boesky, more Mephistopheles. Cut a deal with the devil, and you may become...
However keen Moscow may be to cut its losses, some analysts are certain that the U.S.S.R. will prolong the occupation rather than allow a mass killing of Afghan Communists or the installation of an openly anti-Soviet government. But the latter may be unavoidable in the long run. Said a Western diplomat in Kabul last week: "Without Soviet troops, this government could not last six months. This is the dying gasp...
...prospect of dreary Christmas sales and a slowing economy dampened the market so much that it shrugged off several bits of good news. The civilian unemployment rate dipped in November from 6% to 5.9%; it has not been lower since July 1979. Moreover, West Germany's Bundesbank announced a cut in the discount rate that it charges on loans to banks, from 3% to 2.5%. That move, along with reductions by six other European central banks, could help boost the world's flagging economic growth...
...prospects. Consumer spending, which constitutes two-thirds of the $4.5 trillion U.S. economy, has been the engine of American growth in recent years. Since a long overdue return to thriftiness would put a damper on the economy, a too rapid conversion could be dangerous. "If everybody got religion and cut their spending 10%, we'd have a recession. Gradual change is what we need," says Cynthia Latta, senior financial economist for Data Resources, a forecasting firm...
...Ecole Nationale Argentine Bellegarde, a school on Ruelle Vaillant in downtown Port-au-Prince. Two hours after the 6 a.m. opening of the country's 6,000 polling stations, a mob of 50 goons descended on a line of about 100 waiting voters. Using machetes and machine guns, they cut down several Haitians on the spot, then hunted down and butchered many who had tried to flee. One woman was decapitated under an almond tree in the schoolyard. Another was dismembered in an adjacent alleyway. At least 17 people, possibly more, died in the attack. Said Photographer Diederich after surveying...