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snipping

verb

Present participle of snip

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For spurs, shorten last year's new growth on each main branch by a third, by snipping off the tip to a bud.

I'm not sure what's funny: two men asking for sweet paan (the sweet variety is for women and children; men tend to order the version with red betel nuts or tobacco), or two Westerners ordering paan at all.Watching the ritual preparation―the snipping of the leaves, the precise and delicate ordering of the filling―provides a final bit of street theatre.

A tour of Jail Two, the most spruced-up part that is shown to visitors, houses prisoners passing their days snipping at bonsai trees, overseeing a herb garden and goose pond, and painting murals of idyllic rural scenes and Mahatma Gandhi.

Snipping the ribbon was the prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller.

And America produces all sorts of things that Indians crave, from iPads to MBAs to fighter planes.In this section Snipping off the shackles Paper tiger From Walkman to hollow men War on new fronts Maintaining fees King of the Mad Men The other elephant ReprintsYet the rise of new economic powers always brings problems as well as opportunities for incumbents.

"I heard it, like a butcher snipping the fat off a piece of meat," she recalls.

In the very near future scientists will be snipping and splicing the DNA in human eggs, sperm and embryos, not only fixing faulty genes but adding enhancements too.

An early brush-off from one of Mr Kumar's deputies set the standard for their treatment.In this section Snipping off the shackles Paper tiger From Walkman to hollow men War on new fronts Maintaining fees King of the Mad Men The other elephant ReprintsRatnesh Yadav, one of Husk's founders, describes constant struggles with local corruption.

Mr Ahmadinejad has tirelessly toured Iran's impoverished and neglected remoter provinces, snipping ribbons, laying foundation stones and fielding petitions from clamouring crowds, with flattering television cameras perpetually in tow.But his gleeful emptying of state coffers has also made inflation surge.

Its market capitalisation is now $15 billion.In this section Snipping off the shackles Paper tiger From Walkman to hollow men War on new fronts Maintaining fees King of the Mad Men The other elephant ReprintsThe firm had little option but to grow by acquisition, says Sir Martin.

This makes it difficult for Japanese bosses to be leaders rather than just figureheads.In this section Snipping off the shackles Paper tiger From Walkman to hollow men War on new fronts Maintaining fees King of the Mad Men The other elephant Reprints"The salaryman-shacho is one of the biggest reasons why the Japanese economy went down.

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