Word: axing
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...advantages of switching are numerous. To begin with, we'd have a reasonably-sized winter break, long enough to relax or even acquire gainful employment. And we wouldn't have to return to face the whistling axe of final exams. Reading periods would be shorter, but since these are nothing more than ill-disguised extensions of the semester, good riddance. And our spring break might actually have a chance of coinciding with those of our friends at other colleges...
Federal funding for higher education will largely be spared from the Congressional budget-cutting axe in the latest incarnation of the 1996 budget, according to compromises likely to pass both the House and the Senate...
...have an axe to grind with anybody," the six-year tenant said, adding that he appreciates the help he has received from HSA manager Richard Olken in searching for a new site for his business...
...story involves so many miracles - plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, manna from heaven, the giving of the Ten Commandments - that some critics feel the whole story has the flavor of pure myth. A massive exodus that led to the drowning of Pharaoh's army, says Father Anthony Axe, Bible lecturer at Jerusalem's Ecole Biblique, would have reverberated politically and economically through the entire region. And considering that artifacts from as far back as the late Stone Age have turned up in the Sinai , it is perplexing that no evidence of the Israelites' passage has been found. William...
Holding a doll wearing a Harvard jersey, the mascot engaged in several very interesting actions. At one point, he threw the doll down, and he also took an axe and gave it a couple of whacks. Really funny stuff--a large part of the matinee crowd of 3,163 were children...