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The trickle-down effect has butchered the depth charts Toub uses in what the Bears are calling "one of those years."

From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 29, 2011

Since 1600, when the first precise records were compiled, man has butchered creatures ranging from the abalone to the blue whale and the zebra.

From Time Magazine Archive