Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Stone said the committee has not cut anyone from the long list of 400 names--other than two nominees who are more than 90 years old and two nominees who are dead...
...With scattered Cs in the ninth and 10th grades and football and guitar as his only extracurriculars, Comeback Kid would normally have missed Bowdoin's first cut of applications. But in his essay he wrote of how he'd spent those first two years of high school: "slowly poisoning myself in a pool of malted hops." Then a close relative who was an alcoholic died of a stroke. After that, he cut out the beer, got A-pluses in his senior year and won a national writing award. He also won a unanimous thumbs-up for admission...
...administration harshly for its lack of energy policy - for a failure to promote energy conservation and for its misbegotten ideological refusal to develop domestic sources of energy, especially in Alaska. Americans may rediscover, the hard way, that oil does not gush from a hydrant down the block. Either you cut down on the use of oil, or you find alternative energy sources, or you drill for more oil on land you control. You don't rely on the good will of the Arab oil states...
...ended. But before Bush's lead in the snap polls even had a chance to mature (or disappear, as Gore's did after the first debate), the Middle East blew up, and the stock market with it. Six days of debate-related punditry and spin cycling has been abruptly cut short. In the Friday headlines - big, grave, banner headlines with the seriousness of death in them - there was nary a Bush or Gore to be found...
...Which was fine with Al Gore, who loudly cut short a day in swing-state land (Milwaukee, specifically) to go back to Washington and take his incumbent's place at the adult table. "He's vice president, he's part of the national security team, and a situation like this requires that the full team be in place," said Gore spokesman Chris Lehane. "This is not about politics," he added. "This is about peace in the Middle East." And an administration scrambling to have some stability to point to in November...