Word: ax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announced that seven programs, promptly dubbed "the seven sacred cows," would be spared from the budget ax. The lucky seven: Social Security pensions; Veterans Administration disability benefits, even those for non-service-connected ailments; Medicare payments for the elderly; Supplemental Security Income for the elderly, blind or disabled poor; free school breakfasts and lunches for poor children; Operation Head Start, which prepares disadvantaged youngsters for school; the summer jobs program for poor youths...
...emergency in the future spawn "crisis-oriented, unreasonable" programs to develop the region's coal, gas and oil resources. Said Watt: "All too often, the Federal Government moves in a crisis, not with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel but with the force of a meat ax. We want the right kind of development to come over time, not the wrong kind of development to come in a crisis...
Ronald Reagan lifted the double-edged ax above his head and slammed it into the tree branch lying on the ground. He swung again, his right hand sliding the length of the long wooden handle, and kept swinging for two full minutes. His face glistened with sweat. He wore amber sunglasses; earlier he had removed his contact lenses because the flying chips sometimes lodged behind them. In his faded denim shirt, leather gloves, scuffed boots and cowboy hat, he looked fit and even young. His breathing now became a little heavy, and he put down the ax...
...made. The only purpose that it would really serve would be not only to focus attention on the Government, but to convince people of the seriousness of our economic crisis. It does not mean that if you did that I would suddenly have fabulous powers, or I could go ax-wielding in every direction...
...auto excise taxes would be reduced by 62%, and renters would be able to take a state tax deduction for half their yearly rent. Voters, fired with visions of immediate tax relief, overwhelmingly approved 2½. Now, however, it looks as though the tax was less troublesome than the ax...