Word: ax
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...adding to the country's stock of human capital. Applications to graduate programs in everything from law and business to education and engineering are up from last year by 30%-100%. That approach should pay off. Although 1.9 million Americans with a high school diploma or less got the ax from September 2000 to October 2001--a time when the economy was slumping--1.2 million people with college or vocational degrees were hired, according to the Employment Policy Foundation...
...three soldiers survived. The attack, four days after the sixth anniversary of the Maoist rebellion, was the bloodiest to date: the rebels killed 141 soldiers, policemen and civilians, including Khadka, intelligence officer Lok Eaj Upreti and Upreti's wife. The Maoists butchered all three upper-caste Nepalis with an ax...
...oldest no more than 22. They took me out on the porch where they bound my hands behind my back and tied my legs together at the ankles. They brought a big rock and put it under my knee. One girl showed me a very large ax. While 12 girls held me down, three other girls took turns hacking at me. Blood and pieces of my bones shot up in the air?it was all over the porch wall next morning." Doctors amputated the man's right leg below the knee. Dr. Mahindra Kumar Nepal, executive director of the capital...
...enough to stir the ire of the European Commission. Durão Barroso says wryly that this was "only a slight variation of 100%" on the government's 1.1% prediction and that it's probably higher because of trick accounting. He won't say where he would wield the ax but claims he will be tough on the state-funded institutions that grow around Portuguese governments like suckerfish around the mouth of a whale. "There were 130 of these six years ago," he says. "The Guterres government added another 78. Most are to give jobs to the boys...
AmeriCorps survived the ax each year--barely. Now Bush aims to expand it by spending an additional $230 million for 25,000 more volunteers. And Bush wants $10 million for teaching support programs, $50 million to expand Senior Corps (foster grandparents and companions) and $40 million over five years to double the Peace Corps (especially in Islamic countries). The Citizen Corps will tap the naturally nosy--doormen, truckers, postmen--to report anything that looks suspicious to a new terrorist hot line. Unfurling Freedom Corps allows the President to bring the war home, to dress the entire country in green fatigues...