Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...have been a cozy breakfast on the Paramount lot, just the Vice President and the heads of the major movie studios and television networks discussing how to promote cancer awareness. Then Al Gore marched in with a rough cut of his own: a five-minute video of movie and television scenes in which the hottest stars--John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Winona Ryder among them--were smoking cigarettes. The 1997 power breakfast quickly became a food fight, with accusations of irresponsibility and censorship flying back and forth between Gore and the angry moguls...
...former dictator SUHARTO and his family were scheduled to be questioned about corruption allegations. The dilemma facing President ABDURRAHMAN WAHID: how to deal with a powerful, well-connected family that will stop at nothing to protect itself. The next morning, a confidant of the President's urged that he "cut off the head of the snake"--meaning, take direct action against the Suharto clique. "We are getting closer," Wahid obliquely replied. Then, last Friday, he called for the arrest of Suharto's youngest son Tommy. The police questioned him Saturday but made no arrest, citing lack of evidence...
...Expo 2000, the world's fair in Hanover, Germany. Meant to showcase a united Germany, it is attracting a third of the expected number of visitors so far, and a number of hoped-for corporate sponsors have yet to sign on. Organizers have fired hundreds of workers and cut ticket prices, but Expo may still leave the German government with some $1 billion in debt...
...raison d'etre. Soon h2g2 plans to introduce a premium service allowing users to receive a "smarticle," a text-based phone message summarizing sightseeing tips for a particular area, saving mobile users search time and reducing phone charges. h2g2 will make money through subscription charges and by taking a cut of mobile operators' airtime revenues, says the firm's chief operating officer, Ted Bissell. h2g2's website already boasts 55,000 regular members, with three to five times that number of people surfing the site. About 5% are accessing h2g2 through mobile phones...
...their parents' health-care costs. They like Bush's education record as well as his plan to use vouchers to rescue children from failing schools, and his "prosperity with a purpose" pitch has been hitting home with them too. But when he got lost in the thickets of tax-cut policy, they started leaning toward Gore, who promises to give their parents a prescription-drug benefit and pour money into their kids' schools...