Word: axing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Give Him the Axe...
...wealthy businessman and friend of the governor is murdered in his home with a ceremonial axe. Corelli draws the case. Upon looking around the house, he discovers that the businessman has various collections: objects of ethnic art (like the axe), antique furniture and (class guy that he is) public hair from the women that he has bedded, which he keeps in jeweled boxes on his dresser. On one of the boxes is the Chinese character for "jade...
...president said he "did a fairly intensive bit [of lobbying]" in Washington 10 days ago to make the case for sustained funding of student aid and basic scientific research, which have come under the Congressional budget axe...
Following months of anticipation, the GOP could turn its budget axe on federal student loans today...
...meantime, a committee of House Republicans has proposed keeping intact certain measures that had been likely candidates for the budget axe in recent months...