Word: slashes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Faculty Council voted to slash the proposal that Expos be an extra course requirement. And at an April meeting, the full Faculty passed two amendments, one of which allowed for the designation of specific departmental courses that could be taken in place of Core classes, and another which allowed students to “shift” a course from one Core area to another—not changing the total number of Core courses, just the distribution...
...Even getting a flight at a convenient time has become a daunting challenge. Faced with a dramatic decline in reservations, airlines such as Cathay Pacific?which last week asked 14,000 of its employees to take four weeks of special leave starting in June?have been forced to slash their schedules by almost 50%. Passenger flow at Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport?formerly heralded as Asia's busiest travel hub?is down 80% since the SARS outbreak, from 100,000 to 20,000 per day. Seats on remaining flights are plentiful, but the SARS epidemic makes mundane trips...
...like superhero-slash-superstud Jack, I do feel a time crunch these days, just when the wide world of sports is most tempting. No matter what apathy I feel towards the NBA and the NHL during their regular seasons, I wish I had more time to sit and veg in front of games that actually mean something. The sun is doing its best to make up for letting it snow in April, so it’s impossible to stay inside and work. Plus my Astros are finally playing someone other than the Expos, with a three-game series against...
...maybe liberation feels real only when it includes the chance to be bad. Vandalism and violence were not just freedom's product; they were its proof. You know it is a new world when you can slap your shoes on the tyrant's face, spit on it and slash it, when you can break a window and steal a chair, wheel a refrigerator away on roller skates, drive down the wrong side of the street--all conduct unthinkable just 24 hours before or at any time during the 8,000-day reign of Saddam Hussein, which has finally come...
...between my blocker and my glove and she slashed,” said the Swiss goaltender. “I guess he blew the whistle before, because otherwise I would have been pretty mad if they would have given the goal, because it was definitely a hard slash...