41.   Slowly carve out flesh in a single piece, cutting as close to skin as possible.

42.   Some analysts have said Major will use the current favorable conditions to deliver lower interest rates and a tax cut as a way to win back votes.

43.   Still, some retailers said they believed that shoppers were delaying purchases in part in the belief that prices would be cut as Christmas approaches.

44.   Stock investors have applauded the rate cut as an aggressive move.

45.   Surely not to Pippen, the ultimate character actor who could never cut it as a marquee attraction.

46.   Subsidies to the East will be cut only as the economy gains strength, he told an audience in Cottbus, near the Polish border.

47.   That is what happens when you sell a whopping tax cut as essential to reviving a weak economy, which you assume will be growing robustly as of June.

48.   Target is too frugal to cut as generous a deal as Kmart, and it already has a successful housewares brand by the architect Michael Graves.

49.   The bulk of avant-garde designers used color more than cut as the basis for their shock tactics.

50.   The defensive line coach goes to get the defensive linemen who are being cut just as the quarterbacks coach might go off in search of one of his quarterbacks.