Word: axing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protester said a leaflet signed by the Committee for a Better Brandeis and threatening to "axe the shantytown tomorrow" was delivered to a campus newspaper hours after the shantytown was completed...
...Thursday--The Audit Bureau of Circulation reports that the Harvard Independent's circulation has soared to 467,000 a week. Headlines in today's issue include: "Giant Slime Monster Living in Charles," "Axe-Wielding Cliffie Trashes A.D. 'Bimbo Party,"' and "Cokehead Cannibal Feasts on Signet Snoots." Says Indy Editor-in-Chief Kristin Amerling '87, "We're trying to get permission from Dean Jewett to start up Wingo...
...will end only the Senior Tutor knows. But it's time, tired readers; it's that time of year To close all the books, and spread some good cheer: Shut off the typewriter, sit back and relax As out come our presents, and down swings the axe. Your papers are due, your plane leaves at three, But first we'll reveal what lies under our tree. For before we depart for regions far hence, Our wishes for the New Year we'd like to dispense...
...reduced by a set amount in each of the next several years, most federal spending--including much financial aid to college students--would be reduced by an across-the-board percentage. In addition, the President may be given broad discretionary powers in determining which programs get the axe...
...axe fell on faculties again in February when the Association of American Colleges decried "the transformation of the professors from teachers concerned with the characters and minds of their students to professionals, scholars with Ph.D. degrees with an allegiance to academic disciplines stronger than their commitment to teaching or to the life of the institutions where they are employed...