Word: cut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...persuade both countries to sign -- although India insists that it be made more equitable by extending the ban on explosions to cover computer simulations used by the major powers. The next phase of the complex global disarmament process will be a U.N. conference in Geneva on a treaty to cut production of fissionable nuclear material...
...antitrust chief also had plenty of incentive to cut a deal. With merger mania rampant in industries from banking to telecommunications, Klein had ample opportunity to prove his trust-busting mettle without taking on Microsoft in a long and costly battle that many legal scholars suspect he will have a tough time winning. Faced with the uneasy prospect of trying to prove consumer harm by a company that has helped make PCs better and cheaper, Klein must have held out at least faint hopes that Gates would renounce enough of his most egregious practices to let them both declare victory...
...took that same fine-tuned tension and sense of challenge with him every time he cut a side. Out of the 1,414 studio recordings he made, and despite the hundreds of glories he left behind--from I'll Never Smile Again of 1940 to Hey Look, No Crying of 1981--there were songs that eluded him till the end. Studio outtakes and bootlegs show him chiding the arranger, bugging the conductor, riding the band and beating up on himself with a good-humored swagger that doesn't hide the disappointment and frustration that are chewing...
...hats. First class all the way but nothing fancy. Ordinary guys were anxious--and anxious is the word--to show that they understood the bits of nightclub chivalry that Frank knew all about, like how to light a lady's cigarette. All the same, they wanted to cut loose, the way Sinatra wore his tie--undone, a sign of his narrow escape from a workaday world that could still seize them by the throat...
...South Korean fabric salesman, knows this all too well. Ahn bemoans the fact that he can't cut back his traveling, because cloth must be "felt and seen." He skips meals, crams more meetings into an already tight schedule and grabs public buses instead of hailing cabs. "When I jokingly told some of my business contacts to pay for meals, they took it seriously," says Ahn, whose belt tightening has worked perhaps too effectively--he claims he lost 8 lbs. with all the extra running around on his last business trip. Other pleasurable business habits are also taking a pounding...