Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell (4-1 overall, 2-1 Ivy) retaliated six minutes later with a time-consuming 14-play, 81-yard drive. Dave Quarles capped off the drive with a 24-yard field goal to cut the Brown lead to four...
...twist, a woman fluffs her white veil into swaddling and so conjures up a baby in arms. Horns blare as a crowd of celebrants, resplendent in red, holds aloft a richly caparisoned tent for the wedding of a blind king. A master of military arts orders a disciple to cut off his right thumb and thereby lose his strength and skill. "It is not cruelty," the teacher explains. "It is foresight...
...that adjustments in agricultural production, like limiting the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers, would have only a slight effect. A more important step would be to protect the tropical rain forests, a move that would certainly be resisted by developers. Obviously, the most far-reaching step would be to cut back on the use of fossil fuels, a measure that would be hard to accomplish in industrialized countries without a wholesale turn to energy conservation or alternative forms of power. In developing countries, such reductions might be technologically feasible but would be all but impossible to carry out politically...
...adjustment has not been easy. In such basic industries as shipbuilding, textiles and small electronics, Japan began losing customers to South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Many Japanese firms had to cut production and sacrifice profits to remain competitive. Mazda, for example, saw its net earnings drop 77% in the six months ending April 30, compared with the same period a year earlier, as it struggled to keep its car prices down...
...their stock of money grows, the Japanese are at last showing tentative signs of being a little more self-indulgent. An $11 billion income tax cut this year, shorter working hours and rising incomes have increased demand for items as diverse as bread-baking machines, self-stirring saucepans, oversize TVs and imported cars. Even things "made in the U.S.A." are becoming more popular -- though not as fast as many American producers would like. Notes MITI's Sugiyama: "We're still trying hard to add to our shopping list something other than jets and computers from...