Word: slice
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best, and, to quote one former French ambassador, a combination "messenger boy, travel agent and innkeeper." Reduced responsibility has also meant falling prestige. No French diplomat reacted kindly when President Georges Pompidou imperiously commented that an ambassador's role consisted of balancing "a cup of tea and a slice of cake." Nonetheless, after each election in the U.S., hope still springs eternal among political beneficiaries that they might be rewarded with choice ambassadorial appointments...
From then on he raced only the clock, touching the wall at 4:01.48 to slice .55 seconds off the old Harvard standard set by Ron Raikula. Lundberg has now qualified for three individual events at the Nationals...
...suggested, got a bad case of the frizzies but not the answer to the big question: Why did Bantam Books shell out a record $3.2 million for the paperback rights? That may not be much by Hollywood standards, but in publishing, it is long, long bread any way you slice it. It is enough to give a dollar bill to every man, woman and child in New Zealand, with change left over to pay a major league utility infielder for a year. Put it another way. If you placed $3.2 million end to end, they would stretch 318 miles...
...term bailout plan, based on the anticipated sale of $500 million in new bonds, could be in place. Still, the future remains clouded by a demand of the newly created school finance authority that the board of education, which has already cut $60 million from its $1.4 billion budget, slice an additional $106 million by September 1981; these cuts will almost certainly require teacher layoffs and salary renegotiations. Both moves are opposed by the C.T.U...
...Birmingham, Don Reed and three aides got six phone calls in two weeks about Viet Nam War veterans who threatened to kill themselves. Each time Reed and his team raced to answer the cries for help. One vet waved a knife and swore that he would slice up his dog and then himself. "Cut up the damn dog," said Reed with a calm that he did not feel. "I don't care." Suddenly, when the vet was distracted, Reed kicked him in the shins and disarmed him. Reed & Co. saved five of the vets, but they were too late...