Word: nip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disturbing part about this trend is Harvard's collective failure to nip it in the bud; the efforts of Tomassoni and leaders like McCann have yet to sink in. Martins' retaliatory hook to Mike Larkin at the end of the Vermont game (costing the Crimson a chance at a game-winning power-play opportunity) may prove to be the crucial blow in the battle for discipline--if Tomassoni's benching of Martins fails to illustrate to his players the importance of not taking stupid penalties, it's hard to imagine what could. No matter what, Tomassoni's point that...
...reality, Clinton's formula is a very moderate effort to reduce the deficit without disrupting the economy. Proposed spending cuts nip at the fringes of the government's massive spending package; huge items like entitlements remain untouched. New taxes, while very visible, amount to only a slap on the wrist. Energy duties are minuscule in comparison to those Europeans have to pay. Clinton's plan is hardly radical, and as it passes through Congress it will likely become even less...
...last weekend's nip-and-tuck contest against top-ranked Princeton (7-1, 5-0 Ivy), Penn (5-3, 3-2 Ivy) reached into their bag of tricks and pulled out the old "Lonesome End" play...
...case, the company that once bestrode the world now has trouble paying its bills. "We wasted too much time and money, and we're finally down to the point where it's nip and tuck," says a senior GM executive. "To me, the sad part is, Couldn't we have done it any other way?" Apparently not. But besides cutting costs, GM must now focus its attention on something the company has too often seemed to forget: how to build cars, trucks and vans that more people are happy to pay money...
...with yesterday's wins in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts many Democrats may be hoping to nip Weld's political ambition early by besting him in the 1994 gubernatorial elections...