Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft bluntly explained after Bush's Coast Guard speech, "The President felt he appeared too negative before, so he's trying to appear more positive now." Other White House officials added that Moscow had made "major concessions" in its latest offer to cut tanks and other conventional weapons. They pointed out, moreover, that the Soviets had done so "in a serious way, at the bargaining table" in Vienna, rather than in splashy public pronouncements...
Meanwhile, Wan, 73, cut short his visit to Washington (canceling a tennis match with the President), ostensibly for reasons of health, and headed home. But instead of returning to Beijing, he landed in Shanghai, where he was put up in a guesthouse outside the city -- possibly under house arrest. On Saturday a statement was read on Chinese television saying that Wan Li supported Li Peng -- dashing the hopes of protesters that Wan would convene an emergency session of the National People's Congress to consider Li's removal...
More sensible work schedules could reduce such hazards. In a recent eleven- month experiment in Philadelphia, police were put on a revised rotation that meshed better with their innate clocks. The number of days worked consecutively was cut, and the officers were not moved from one shift to another as frequently. Police on the new schedule had 40% fewer patrol-car accidents than before, and their use of sleeping pills and alcohol dropped by half...
...days earlier, when viewers saw Chinese officials ordering Rather off the air. Sure enough, that night's CBS EVENING NEWS showed Rather at his anchor desk in New York City, interviewing Beijing correspondent John Sheahan. When Sheahan's picture suddenly disappeared from the screen, Rather abruptly cut him off in midsentence, even though Sheahan's telephone connection remained intact. "We timed it so that if ((the satellite)) did get cut, it would happen during the report," admitted producer Lane Venardos...
Democrats are poised to elevate Tom Foley to the top House post, but there will be a scramble for other leadership positions. -- At this week's NATO summit, George Bush may counter Gorbachev's gambits by proposing a cut in U.S. , forces in Europe. -- Could the explosion that killed 47 sailors on the U.S.S. Iowa have been triggered by a plot to collect insurance...