Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...used by the U.S. and Taiwanese groups were similar. Both took stem cells from the limbus, the circular area of the eye that surrounds the cornea. These cells were grown on a sterilized membrane for several weeks until they formed a layer five to 10 cells thick. Doctors then cut pieces to the size they needed and sewed them into place...
...second reason is class politics. Both parties agree on cutting taxes for married couples. But Democrats want a smaller cut aimed at lower- and middle-class families, while Republicans want to help upper-middle-class couples...
...want to lose their best issue. The marriage penalty is one of the few sure-fire winners for the G.O.P., uniting family-values conservatives with married suburban swing voters. Clinton, reading the same polls, wants to take the issue off the table by swapping the marriage-tax cut for a Medicare prescription-drug benefit. But the Republicans realize that if they take the deal, they will have nothing popular to promise the voters in November. Thus, so far, they have said no. But if the summer drags on and the public buys Al Gore's attacks on a do-nothing...
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...: White House aides fear that Clinton's long stay up at Camp David and his trip here have allowed the Republicans in Congress to gain important political ground with their proposals to cut the estate tax and the marriage penalty. Although administration officials and Democratic leaders have been condemning the tax cuts as too deep, "what's been missing is the President's voice," said one aide here. Solution: last Saturday's radio address, which dealt exclusively with domestic tax issues, attacking the Republicans for "treating the surplus like they...
...Cut to the geopolitical present tense (or tense present), and the Holy City appeared to be all that stood between the secular, terrestrial powers represented by Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat and an agreement to put behind them a brutal shared history of conquest, dispossession, terrorism and war. But even those pro-Western Arab regimes in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that have traditionally encouraged Arafat to compromise have backed the Palestinian leader to the hilt in demanding that the eastern portion of the city captured by Israel in 1967 - the part, incidentally, which contains all the above-mentioned holy...