Word: subtractions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particularly struck by one of General Sharon's statements. "Who could have imagined, even one year ago," he wailed, red-faced with indignation, "that Israel would deal with the PLO?" Change the intonation, subtract the angry epithets ("a gang of terrorists") that Sharon attached at the end of the phrase, and it's exactly the message we're hearing from architects and supporters of the Gaza-Jericho plan...
...subtract from the Pentagon's proposed list of 31 major bases, the commission must find "substantial deviation" from the Defense Department's calculations on the criteria. That is, the commission would have to show the Pentagon made major mistakes...
...subtract. Under this plan, the financially strapped Athletic Department would cut men's sports in order to free up money for women's teams and to achieve a greater overall balance in support between men's and women's teams...
...SUBTRACT DRUGS FROM THE bloody San Diego gang scene that reporter Bob Sipchen describes -- go ahead, wave a wand -- and the festering urban mess still would stink of hopelessness. Sipchen, who writes for the Los Angeles Times, uses an African proverb for an epigraph: "It takes a whole village to raise a child." If there is no village of strong adults, only warring teenage street gangs controlling a few blocks of city turf, then the gangs may do the child rearing. Kevin Glass was 10, a clever, skinny black kid already moving from mischief to larceny, when he began...
...allowance. When she made $25 from theater work or a few off-and-on dollars for being a cosmetician in a mortuary, she would stubbornly report the money to the welfare people "because I didn't want my daughter seeing Mom lying." The welfare people would stubbornly subtract it from her next check. "Of course by that time the theater money would be gone." She admits that the system did what it was supposed to do: it propped her up when she needed it. But dignity wasn't part of the process. "Yeah, I get pissy thinking about it, because...