Word: ax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles Buxton Jr., pointed out that in 1984 the FBI received reports on only 67 children kidnaped by strangers. For Post Editor David Hall, the stories were especially rewarding, since they began with "a rookie reporter looking deeper into a routine story. It was good old-fashioned pick-ax journalism." Hall's peers agreed: the Denver Post series last week won the newspaper world's most coveted honor, the Pulitzer gold medal for public service...
...sapped U.S. military strength in the 1970s. For the first time since Reagan launched his $1.5 trillion defense buildup five years ago, polls show sharply declining support for increased military spending. In Congress, deficit cutters in both parties are arguing that the Pentagon cannot be exempted from the budget ax. And two days after the President spoke last week, a commission appointed by Reagan himself issued a report arguing that unless the Pentagon undergoes major structural changes, more dollars for defense may simply be frittered away...
...Rudman law dictates that the deficit must shrink to $144 billion in 1987 and disappear altogether by 1991. If those targets are not met, the law calls for automatic across-the-board spending reductions that would be divided equally between defense and non-defense appropriations. To avoid that meat-ax approach, the White House is exploring all possible strategies for trimming spending, and privatization looks like one of the most promising...
...audiences as the elusive Dr. Stephen Falken in War Games, Northumberland is every inch the cold-hearted villain, complete with gaunt complexion, beady eyes and extended five o'clock shadow. The first of the principal actors to appear on-screen, we see him directly after the camera shows the ax being lowered over the head of King Edward's former favorite, the Duke of Somerset. After hearing of Somerset's death, Northumberland nestles back into his chair and with an admirable coolness, casually inquires, "Did he die well...
According to a study released in December by the U.S. Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, the N.P.A. is responsible for a steady increase of "human rights abuses" over the past two years, including kidnapings and assassination by gun, ax and club. The Philippine government says that 1,203 civilians and 144 officials were killed in encounters with rebels last year...