• He would wear trousers made of green billiard cloth, a pink coat, a blue shirt, a tie hand-painted by a Japanese friend, an immense sombrero, a flaming beard cut to a point and a single large blue earring.

    ECONOMIST: Ezra Pound

  • "What we're talking about tomorrow is children in families where the welfare benefits have been cut to a point where they are less than Parliament actually has said they should be, because that's what a cap does, " he told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme.

    BBC: Lord Ashdown to vote against coalition benefits cap

  • Ironically, it succeeded in keeping its options open by threatening to pick a single final design, which led contractors to cut prices to a point where continued purchase of both versions became feasible.

    FORBES: Low-Cost Warship Rescues Navy From Shrinking Fleet

  • In Serie A, Juventus' lead was cut to a single point after being held to a 1-1 draw by 10-man Lecce.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Jenkins converted to cut the deficit to a point at half time.

    BBC: Jenkins saves Cardiff

  • Treviso managed to cut the lead to a point when Benjamin de Jager went over but the Tigers ran riot in the last 30 minutes and scored six more tries.

    BBC: Treviso 16-60 Leicester

  • Mulligan pointed the resultant free but perhaps crucially, Brian Roper swung over a great long-range effort to cut Tyrone's lead to a point at the break.

    BBC: Brendan Devenney tries to break clear from Ryan McMenamin

  • Trailing by 17 in the second half, Strickland scored 10 of 12 points in a run that cut it to a five-point game.

    WSJ: Fordham women turning heads in Atlantic 10

  • Bath then suffered a blow as Abendanon was sin-binned for taking out Tom Varndell as he chased his own chip ahead and Cipriani hit the post when he attempted to cut the gap to a nine-point margin.

    BBC: Wasps 19-35 Bath

  • The Ospreys quickly cut that lead to a point after Hook kicked a penalty and they really piled on the pressure in search of a try.

    BBC: Leinster 19-13 Ospreys

  • Confederation chiefs called for a cut of half a percentage point cut in interest rates to support UK industry, the first time for three years they have demanded such a big reduction.

    BBC: CBI director general Digby Jones

  • But a decision by the Federal Reserve to make a quarter-point cut, say, would do little to help Russia, Brazil or Thailand.

    ECONOMIST: On the edge | The

  • He found the money by dropping the government's plan to cut company tax by a percentage point, a promise linked to a new tax on mining profits.

    ECONOMIST: Australian politics

  • Harris' third successful goal cut the deficit to just a point and he gave his side the lead for the first time with a penalty.

    BBC: Leeds defeat leaders Wigan

  • Any threat of Mahendra Dhoni blasting his team out of trouble ended three balls later when he cut to point for a duck as a total of five wickets fell for two runs in 10 balls, which left India 159-9.

    BBC: SPORT | Cricket | Spirited Bangladesh upset India

  • Investors expect it to make a 25 basis point, cut to 4.25%.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Smith finally made a 3-pointer to end his drought, and then another cut what had been a 15-point Boston lead to 88-83 with 1:05 remaining.

    WSJ: Celtics stay alive, beat Knicks to force Game 6

  • So I think that it's you know, at the end of the day, you've got to get a cut off point and the question is, where there's a reasonable cut off point.

    BBC: Harriet Harman interview

  • Mushfiqur Rahim revived the innings again by first lofting Tredwell for a sublime straight six, then backing away to cut through point for four, but was reprieved on 29 when Prior could not get his gloves to a thick edge that deviated appreciably.

    BBC: England shade first day honours against Bangladesh

  • Recent votes to cut pension benefits in San Jose and San Diego point to a growing reformist mood among some citizens.

    ECONOMIST: Stockton��s bankruptcy

  • The bond markets expect Mr Greenspan to read recent inflation data, unexpectedly high, as a statistical blip, and to cut interest rates by at least a quarter-point, perhaps even before the next scheduled Fed meeting on March 20th.

    ECONOMIST: American shares

  • The RBI is widely expected to cut its key lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point Tuesday to stimulate an economy growing at its weakest pace in a decade.

    WSJ: India Probing Money-Laundering Charges Against Banks

  • The Bank of England has delivered a stunning 150-basis-point cut to interest rates, as the British economy seems headed toward a potentially long and painful recession.

    FORBES: Market Scan

  • The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate by a quarter-percentage point Tuesday to 4.25 percent in an effort to buoy a U.S. economy battered by tighter credit and a continuing mortgage crisis.

    NPR: Fed Cuts Key Interest Rate by Quarter-Point

  • However, the main focus on Thursday will likely center on developments in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, where the European Central Bank is expected to cut its main interest rate by a further quarter of a percentage point to 0.5 percent.

    NPR: US Economic Concerns Weigh On Markets Ahead Of ECB

  • Just before he announced his intention to relocate the government, his vice-president, Boediono, unveiled a 17-point plan to cut the jams in Jakarta.

    ECONOMIST: Should Indonesia move its capital city?

  • Half of City economists expect a quarter-point cut by the end of 2008, according to a Bloomberg News poll on August 22nd, compared with a quarter of them on August 8th.

    ECONOMIST: Weak sterling

  • The dramatic, and what some saw as a panicked, reaction by the Federal Reserve, to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point sent mixed signals.

    CNN: In the Field

  • The European Central Bank cut rates by a half-point to 3.25%, to give a boost to the ailing euro-area economies.

    ECONOMIST: No-fly zone

  • Boston cut a 26-point deficit to four points twice down the stretch, but failed to pull off one more improbable run.

    WSJ: Celtics' comeback fades in 88-80 loss to Knicks

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