Word: ax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down, fully dressed except for shoes, and arranged the covers over me. Lying alongside my body under the blanket was the big ax handle. I could sweep that handle out in a second and knock two men off their feet by striking directly at their knees. In my hand was the knife, and the pipe was under my pillow. I was ready...
...White House, however, remained vague on exactly what it was selling. Administration officials so far have identified only broad areas on which the ax will fall: revenue sharing for states and various job-training programs, for example. Critics charged that Carter was craftily withholding a detailed list of programs to be canceled or trimmed for fear that it would cost him votes in the key primaries in Illinois last week and New York this week. Ted Kennedy called the delay in recommending specific cuts "one of the most cynical aspects of the campaign." Press Secretary Jody Powell replied, "That allegation...
...that will still be $43 billion above the likely totals for the current fiscal year. The ax will fall on a wide variety of Government activities, including, said Carter, "good, worthwhile programs-programs which I support very strongly." Exact proposals will not be submitted to Congress until the end of the month, but the activities known to be due for a slash include revenue sharing for states and cities, job-training programs, airport and highway construction, federal aid to education, health research. There will be a freeze on federal hiring, and the number of federal employees will drop...
...aides, which referred vaguely to reductions in programs to combat mental illness and alcoholism and unspecified other problems. Said the spokesman: "We are not sure what that all means. We are not sure how much these programs will be cut or which health-service programs will get the ax...
...campaigning in the U.S., but in England it's boating on a river." Ideas may come from unlikely sources. One of his son's comic books inspired the drawings for a Science story on black holes in September 1978. "Tool catalogues are particularly helpful," Holmes says. "An ax can be used for chopping a budget or firing Cabinet members." A glistening picture of Body Builder Arnold Schwarzenegger is kept on file to provide another metaphor. Explains Holmes: "Some day the dollar is going to have muscle again." Such imagination has not gone unnoticed by TIME'S readers...