31.   By choice, Graham is paid a salary, rather than taking a cut of the offerings from crusades, a decision that greatly curtails his income.

32.   Canadian Airlines International persuaded its largest union to take wage cuts as part of a rescue plan for the cash-strapped carrier, a machinists union spokesman said.

33.   Chrysler executives, for example, would quickly start job-hunting around Detroit if they were forced to take a cut.

34.   City workers were taking pay cuts.

35.   Civilian leaders retort that they had to delay or cancel arms deals because corrupt officers were taking a cut.

36.   Construction-defect attorneys often work on a contingency basis and take a cut of the settlement.

37.   Day after hot summer day, game after game, taking cuts in the cage, sitting in the dugout, waiting for a chance.

38.   Did he ever take a cut with a stick of metal?

39.   Dodgers bullpen coach Rick Dempsey was pitching batting practice the other day from behind a protective screen when Green stepped to the plate and took a few cuts.

40.   Even though many of the best free agents took pay cuts or had to settle for small raises, they were still signed by big-market clubs.