Bernstein analysts predict that by 2015 generic competition for Lipitor and other big sellers will chop 25% out of Pfizer's present revenue stream.

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Across the heavily fortified American bases in Iraq, men and women like Salim Khan cook the food, clean the dishes, chop the vegetables, take out the garbage and clean the latrines.

NPR: U.S. Contractors in Iraq Rely on Third-World Labor

He went out every day to basically chop cotton and pick coffee for the plantation owner where he lived.

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One of the things I love about Chris is that I could go out in the yard and chop wood with nothing on but a pair of men's boxer shorts and it wouldn't phase him in the least.

NPR: Marshall Chapman: 'Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller'

Imagine subjecting Shakespeare to a computational process like bioinformatics--not to chop the poor guy into DNA base pairs but to tease out 1, 000-word pieces (or strings) of his plays.

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