1.   Or he grabs him by the hair, drags back the head, makes the first deep cut.

2.   He raised the bone knife to the wooden lips and she felt the first gentle cut.

3.   Alma Rubenstein, dressed in black, midriff exposed, also made it through the first cut.

4.   And, curiously enough, the first Fed rate cut drew sneers from traders, but the market bottomed within days of the move.

5.   As soon as he had finished all the angles of a sequence, I would put it into first cut, my version.

6.   Brand-building has always been among the first budget cuts when companies tighten their belts in a recession.

7.   -- JEFF BLAKE is speaking like a man who knows he may not survive the first cut, which comes Tuesday.

8.   But it will probably take several years for the first tariff cuts or other measures to be seen.

9.   But this week, Crew took his first cut at the bureaucratic underbrush.

10.   But when Polygram tested the first cut of the movie several months ago, the focus groups had a generally lackluster response, Polygram officials said.