Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evidence to try to intimidate and embarrass you in court." Following the 1985 crash in Dallas, Delta was criticized for prying into the lives of passengers during litigation. After investigators found that one victim was homosexual, insurance lawyers raised the issue of whether his life expectancy would have been cut short because of AIDS...
Under the new scheme, the commercial banks will have three options. They may cut the outstanding balance of their Mexican loans by 35%, reduce the interest on such loans from a floating rate (which has ranged from 9% to 14% and is currently 9.5%) to a fixed level of 6.25%, or provide a 25% increase in credit over the next four years. The 15 commercial institutions that took part in the negotiations hold the majority of Mexico's commercial-bank debt. But for the plan to be effective, the banks will have the tough task of persuading 500 of their...
Hochschild thinks "pro-family" legislation is needed, not to promote school prayers and cut off birth-control funds, as in the cant of the Reagan years, but to equalize women's wages and provide family leave for both sexes. Tax breaks would go to firms that allow job sharing and flextime, and to developers who build affordable housing with communal meal-preparation facilities. (A problem she does not mention is that many employers do encourage part-time work, often as a way to avoid paying for medical insurance and other benefits.) Using the phrase of another sociologist, the author calls...
...Congress debates how to cut defense outlays, anxious U.S. military , contractors and tens of thousands of workers whose jobs are threatened prepare for another year of declining expenditures...
...refuse to, even with all the 'cracker' stuff. I might grab a guy and say, 'You s.o.b., why would you be callin' me "cracker"? You got somethin' ! against me?' And then he'll think about it, and he'll say, 'Well, no, man, but . . . ' You see, he'll cut back on the hostility...