Word: slashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teams come out soon after and loosen up. Some players stretch their legs on the sides of the boards. The goalies skate to the nets and slash up the ice in front of them. Getting comfortable. Finding a rhythm...
...SICK OF people bashing Stephen King. Any discussion of horror movies or books leads to the inevitable disparagement of King as pop slash-master, ghoulmonger, corpsedragger, goresplasher--as anything but a writer of merit. When Rob Reiner's Stand By Me was released, the deservedly glowing reviews mentioned the story's author in as offhand way as possible--as if it was good despite being written by King...
...that goal, the company has lately come across a roadful of financial potholes -- many of GM's own creation. In the past four years, the zealously modernizing company has spent billions of dollars to build four new plants and to automate dozens of others but has failed to slash expenses sufficiently. GM was slow to close old factories and reduce its capacity. The company persisted in building cars at its traditional huge volume, even though its share of the U.S. new-car market declined from 47.6% in 1978 to 41.3% during the first nine months of this year...
According to the College Board, the congress' recent budget cutting measures will slash federal financial aid programs and may make it harder for students to meet tuition payments...
Overseas, the governments of Britain, West Germany and Japan all expressed strong public support for Reagan's stand at Reykjavik. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone chose to stress the progress made toward an agreement that would slash the number of Soviet SS-20 missiles targeted on his country rather than the failure to conclude the deal. Said Nakasone: "This progress . . . was made possible first of all by the unity of countries in the Western camp...