Word: ax
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Brien and sidekick Andy Richter braced themselves for the ax to fall...
...which the politically connected had been able to receive economically unjustified loans; the cleansing of the banking system has been given partial credit for the recent resurgence of growth in countries like South Korea. Additional casualties of such restrictions, however, were the social spending that fell under the budget ax and the societal cohesion disrupted by economic restructuring and turmoil...
...former editor puts it, "they couldn't fully embrace the gutter." The schizo result--skin on the cover, earnest advice articles on the inside-- satisfied hardly anyone: Maxim readers, old pop-culture-conscious Details readers or advertisers. Ad pages and newsstand sales fell, and with them the ax...
John McCain is to campaign-finance reform what John Brown was to the abolition of slavery: the guy with the ax. So what happens if you have to swing it at yourself? McCain's services on behalf of a major contributor gave an opening last week to George W. Bush, the man who has benefited most, dollarwise, from things as they are. McCain is being asked to explain why he wrote letters to various federal agencies in support of 15 of his top campaign donors. "Somebody who makes campaign finance an issue has got to be consistent," Bush declared...