41.   Now negotiators grappling with the details of putting the first cuts into effect are finding the task as difficult as that of hammering out the original accord.

42.   On the next pass alongside the first cut, the grass is pushed in the opposite direction.

43.   PHOENIX - Clad only in a sterile sheet and a cloud of anesthesia, the patient waits for the surgeon to approach and make the first cut.

44.   Shuster on Tuesday assured the House Rules Committee that no money above the budget caps will be spent without first making equivalent cuts.

45.   So, too was the question of sequestration, until Ito can read the completed questionaires of jury candidates surviving the first cut.

46.   Sutherland got it up-and-down from the first cut on a slope behind the green to get his first lead of the day.

47.   That is, they watched the first cut together, and decided what parts needed music.

48.   That could depress PC sales even more by causing customers to delay purchases until the first cut goes into effect.

49.   That would be the first such drastic cut among big brokerages in Japan.

50.   That, he says, is where he wants to make the first cut.