Word: axed
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...millions of euros; Clegg has campaigned for the Parliament's over-generous system of pay and allowances to be scaled back; and Van der Laan has called for feckless institutions like the Committee of the Regions, which represents local and regional interests, to prove their worth or face the axe. "Ironically, being a bit of an insider helps you be a bit more of a reformer," says British Liberal Clegg...
...guides and helpers introduced themselves on our arrival. Mongolians name their children on an I-spy basis. In our four days, we met "Cockroach," "Airplane" and "Axe," and hulking babyweights "5 kg" and "8 kg." Such unwarrior-like sentimentality does not extend to animals, however, and our rides were distinguished simply as "the black one" or "the fat, lazy...
...such a genius that he could well have indulged himself in the artistic flourishes of batting, but he was too much of a realist to permit himself to do this. Every spectator in Bradman's heyday sensed that he was using not a bat so much as an axe dripping with the bowler's blood and agony...
Daniela Mercury, 35, is already a superstar in Brazil as a champion of axe music (pronounced ah-shay). Her CD Sol da Liberdade throbs like blood in the arteries with the rhythms of her native Bahia, a region of Brazil with a heavy African influence...
...Gore people must harp on the idea - as Bill Daley has already attempted to do - that the court's decision is about justice and small-"d" democracy, and not about a court with an ideological axe to grind. They must also attempt to persuade the public that manual recounts clarify rather than muddy the vote, and that they are the tried-and-true method of protecting voter intent...