Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...While the Mets cut the Giants down to size and made the Cardinals look like flightless birds, the Yankees were positively moribund in September and finished the season by losing seven in a row. They have righted themselves somewhat in these playoffs, but a team that lost a total of two games in their last two playoff runs has already lost four in this one. The pitching (excepting Rivera) is weaker, the hitting still waking up. Not until the seventh-inning explosion that clinched the ALCS in Game Six did the Yankee bats begin to remind me of old times...
Thus, Bush is completely accurate in accusing Gore, whose proposed tax plan includes no cuts for families making over $300,000 per year, of fuzziness. In contrast, Bush's plan is strikingly unfuzzy: He believes that families earning $300,000 per year ought to receive a 9.7 percent tax cut, in spite of the widening disparity between the wealthiest and poorest Americans...
Moreover, although Bush only began to use the word "fuzzy'' recently, his record as governor of Texas demonstrates a long and storied history of unfuzzy policy decisions. For example, in the spring of 1999, he pushed a $2 billion tax cut through the Texas legislature, a move which he has often trumpeted as evidence of his opposition to taxation. In fact, this was a spectacular example of unfuzzy policy: The cut, which came mostly out of property and sales taxes, was directed straight at the wealthiest Texans, and was financed in part by a $250 million cut in the education...
Five minutes after intermission, B.U. co-captain Deidre Enos cut across the middle and beat Harvard sophomore goalkeeper Cheryl Gunther to her right side...
...Pretty clear-cut differences...