Word: slash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suppose, Jon, that I decided I had something to gain in taking your life. I could accomplish this by asserting violence against your physical resistance--I could beat you to death with a crowbar or slash your throat with a knife. This would certainly be a horrible crime. But is it the physical violence against your persistent resistance that distinguishes the act as a crime...
...problem, observed Federal District Judge Milton Pollack, who is overseeing Drexel's reorganization, is that the company's assets are worth only $2.8 billion. To avoid costly litigation that would drain the firm's remaining assets, Pollack last week secured a tentative accord from the key parties to slash their claims 90%, to $2 billion. If the agreement stands, Drexel could soon emerge from Chapter 11 and resume business...
...Walton's scrappy discounter is now America's largest retailing empire. -- Airlines slash fares in a scramble to survive. -- Consumers hate Big Oil, but is the industry getting...
Junior Jen Minkus, who took a brutal slash to the neck against Northeastern, knocked in the second goal for the Crimson. Minkus stuffed the rebound of a Whyte wristshot into the back of the net, giving Harvard a 2-0 lead. The score was Minkus's second tally in as many games...
With his economy on the brink of collapse, Gorbachev recruited Shevardnadze to help him end the cold war and slash military spending. They would build good relations with Western Europe and the U.S. so the U.S.S.R. could tap the technology and investment funds it so desperately needed...