11.   But while first cut, Wahlquist said, temporary help is generally the first to be called back by firms leery of moving too quickly to hire full-time workers.

12.   Children who survive the first cut go through a second round of screening in which they are observed by teachers in a classroom.

13.   China cut interest rates twice this year, the first cuts in five years.

14.   Central bank Gov. Bernie Fraser cited easing inflation -- in part because of sluggish employment growth this year -- as the catalyst for the first cut in three years.

15.   Derek Lowe never made it past the first cut in four springs with the Seattle Mariners.

16.   Every year, come playoff time, the adages come rolling on out like the lawnmower for the first cut of the season.

17.   Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, citing economic warning signs, delivers the first interest rate cut in two years in a surprise move by the central bank.

18.   Guidance counselors are regarded as expendable, and those jobs are often the first cut in times of tight budgets like the current one.

19.   His first cut ran nine and a half hours.

20.   His drive left him with a hanging lie in the first cut of rough.