Word: ax
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According to Rosenthal, UHS administrators decided to ax the plan because such a small number of subscribers presented too high a risk for the University...
...with Iraq-intelligence questions rather than make them overtly political. Record turnout in all the primary states so far suggests that the party core is united. "The question is, how do you get that extra 2% or 3%," one Democratic Senator says. "My guess is that taking a meat ax to the President is not how you should go about...
...Chirac, an old friend of Dehecq's, personally called Liliane Bettencourt, the biggest shareholder in L'Oréal - which in turn owns a big stake in Sanofi - to win her support for the bid. Neither party will comment. German union and government leaders fear that any deal will ax German jobs. But the big threat to French plans comes from Aventis itself. It insists the firm is worth far more than...
...next day, Bush is famously decisive and anchored in his beliefs, charging forward, not looking back. You expect that when one party reclaims the White House some redecorating is in order: Bush might replace those portraits of Franklin Roosevelt with cousin Teddy's. But Richard Nixon didn't ax the Peace Corps, while Bush let AmeriCorps go through several near-death experiences even though it was the one program Clinton personally asked him to protect. Over at the Agency for International Development, officials spent $100,000 on a collage to cover up a bronze plaque honoring Hillary Clinton...
...Picture New York-based Eastman Kodak announced plans to ax up to 15,000 jobs - more than one-fifth of its global work force - as part of its painful shift from traditional film to digital photography...