Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Czechoslovak army units yesterday began pulling down barbed wire fencing along a 20-mile stretch of its border with Austria. After the first stretch of the fence was cut away and rolled up, officials from both countries met on the open border near the Austrian town of Wullowitz to shake hands...
...firm's profits to charities each year. Four years ago, the foundation sold Altman's to B.A. Realty Associates for a price estimated at more than $100 million. The investors then sold the chain, without the real estate, to two accountants, Anthony Conti and Philip Semprevivo, who quickly cut costs and revived the store's merchandising by turning over some departments to savvy outside retailers like toy seller F.A.O. Schwarz. After losing $17 million in 1985, Altman's earned a $3.5 million profit the following year...
...stake in the referendum than the $3 billion spent each year by the military. One survey by the Lausanne-based research institute MIS showed that only 15% of voters really wanted to get rid of the army. The rest wanted the army reformed and defense spending trimmed, a clear- cut result of lessening East-West tensions...
...wittily onto a couch, exhaling every word in swooning intimacy, switching from fawn to fume in the wink of a lover's indiscretion. She can even speak American English without an accent. Surprise! Inside the Greer Garson roles Streep usually plays, a vixenish Carole Lombard is screaming to be cut loose...
Already the world's poorest country, Ethiopia faces famine again. In the northern provinces of Tigre and Eritrea, drought has cut crop yields 85%. The U.N. estimates that 4 million people are in danger of starving and will need emergency food aid. An international relief effort is at work, but in the civil war between the rigidly Marxist government of President Mengistu Haile Mariam and rebels from Tigre and Eritrea, denial of food is a key weapon for both sides. The main relief agencies would like to bring supplies to the insurgents across the Sudanese border instead of via government...