Word: slash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most vicious play of the game came after the final buzzer, when a UMD goon almost took the head off freshman Stuart Swenson (a St. Cloud, Minn. native) with a brutal slash. Swenson had finished a hard check before the final buzzer, but was luckily able to escape without an injury...
...world's commercial aircraft. Hobbled by U.S. defense cuts and a global slump in the airline industry, Boeing's 1993 third-quarter profits slid 45% from last year. In response, the company is cutting 23,000 jobs through mid-1994 while at the same time attempting to slash in half its 12-to-18-month delivery time for planes...
...easy. To address the needs of an aging population, Kohl sought to finance long-term nursing care by dropping up to six days of the sick pay workers get. The idea provoked a minicrisis in his coalition, forcing him to back off; an alternate plan to slash holiday pay 20% was passed by the Bundestag over strike threats...
...hour. PepsiCo is still expanding, but most of the new jobs are for those who feed the ovens at the company's Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC fast-food restaurants. Result: many people who survive layoffs and find new jobs nonetheless suffer a deep slash in income. One study found that of 2,000-odd workers let go by RJR Nabisco, 72% found jobs -- but at wages that averaged only 47% of their previous...
...Faculty report released yesterday recommends that the Semitic Museum reduce its commitment to public exhibitions and slash the size of its staff in order to cut its accumulated deficit of approximately $1 million...