• But where it should have seen the forest, it found only a single tree to chop down.

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  • The answer provided by Mr Thom's maths was to chop down old trees, which foresters said they knew anyway.

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  • Then, in the 1980s, the state developed a green bug, and decided it shouldn't chop down Mother Nature for a living.

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  • Let's chop down some of the intrusive databases maintained by commercial enterprises--why does your cell phone company have to know your Social Security number?

    FORBES: Let's Get the Engineers

  • "We like to chop down the tall poppy here, " he says.

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  • Just a few days before the stock market began collapsing last September, the Aikmans hired a contractor to chop down trees and excavate a pond by their home.

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  • Forming more teams in large markets would chop down the television revenue of now-dominant teams such as the New York Yankees , making it harder for them to buy the best ballplayers.

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  • They chop down weeds to supplement their faltering diet.

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  • So the county and two of its cities (including Ontario) are considering an innovative proposal: to use the powers of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages from investors and chop them down to size.

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  • Hospitals often prefer to chop a bill down in percentage terms rather than fight over individual charges.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Her looks are unique and stunning but, unlike most other yachts of her type, they also serve a function enabling her to cut through chop and blaze down the face of a following sea at high speed.

    FORBES: Connect

  • That fact alone could chop the ethanol industry down to size--if only drivers knew it.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In addition, he often used the hand chop, palm-down, and the smooth broad gestures that signal certainty and authority.

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  • There were plenty of republicans at the convention itching to chop Mr Turnbull and his supporters down.

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  • The glossy black fin and back of a minke whale rose a hundred yards astern, two yellow-striped dolphins broke water and plunged down again, and then the flow of the turned tide could be seen as a chop on the water, small standing waves that indicated the Minch was reversing its direction.

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