Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Director of the Museum. This was prudent. If the Museum goals were to be redefined in order to focus them on the museum's central tasks in the University, attempts to raise funds should not be sought primarily or wholly for peripheral projects, binding the Museum to continue its lop-sided program indefinitely into the future. Peretz' claim that Stager unilaterally barred all fund raising (in his claimed parallel with Lowell) is untrue...
...test, at Lop Nur in the northwestern Gobi Desert region of China, was a sign that Beijing too is irritated, specifically with what hard-liners in the regime consider blackmail, interference and pressure from the West. Amid intensified maneuvering to succeed ailing senior leader Deng Xiaoping, the conservatives have gained influence in the top echelons of government. Last May, President Jiang Zemin told the Politburo, in reference to U.S. human- rights pressures, that "we will not yield to hegemonism and power politics. For the motherland's sovereignty, independence and dignity, we are ready to pay a price." At the same...
...most frightened opponents of Clinton's: their National Federation of Independent Business is gearing up a campaign to kill his plan. The entrepreneurs fear that being forced to offer health insurance to their employees and pay 80% of its cost would either bankrupt them or force them to lop workers off their payrolls (even though some employers would get federal subsidies to help out). On a televised visit to a Washington hardware store last week, the President pledged to take another look at his plan to see "if there is something we can do for people who have between...
Since activists and fund raisers have a marked preference for large figures, Americans might be tempted to lop off some digits whenever they're lobbed a statistic. Alas, such a simple solution doesn't work when it comes to official numbers. Governmental authorities misleadingly tout both high and low statistics...
...Clinton Administration may choose to keep the embargo against Vietnam. On the other hand, Clinton could side with those who believe that if he renews relations he will complete the painful process of healing. Bay Lop's widow is ready. "My husband died for our independence," she says, "but my son has studied English. If he could work for a new American consulate here, I would be glad...