"If you're just running around like chickens with your head cut off, you're not going to accomplish anything, " Chiarelli said.

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' For a minute there, we were running around the court with our head cut off and got a couple of steals.

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"Anytime you see him scrambling around like a chicken with his head cut off, it's shocking, because you don't see it very often, " defensive lineman Trevor Pryce said.

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And even if Congress does head off the cut temporarily as it has in the past, doctors are increasingly leaving the Medicare program given its unpredictable funding.

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Yet the calls for the Bundesbank to follow the Fed and cut rates to head off a global slowdown grow louder.

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"Back in September we announced that we had effectively cut off the head of a dangerous and deadly monster before it ever had a chance of poisoning our streets, " said District Attorney Seth Williams.

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Interest rates were raised progressively until last summer, when people feared an inflationary boom, and have been cut sharply since then, to head off a recession.

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Nine adults were rescued after being cut off by the tide at Worms Head on Gower on Saturday.

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When the company had to cut costs, it laid off the head of the division and kept that number two, who had proved she could do a better job at running the department.

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Working alongside the volunteers, they were handed poles to break off blocks or head-high saws to cut through the ice.

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