Word: axing
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...heart of the City, London's financial quarter, a tower stands half-demolished, its bruised concrete and severed beams exposed. Here - between the Lloyd's building, a monument to the City's 1980s boom, and the Gherkin, Norman Foster's popular pickle-shaped tower at 30 St Mary Axe - work on the foundations for the 738 ft (225-m) Leadenhall Building is underway. Intended for completion in 2011, the skyscraper - designed by celebrated British architect Richard Rogers - would have stood as the tallest in the City...
...Adding to Qantas' headaches is a dispute with unions over cost-cutting measures. These include recently announced plans to axe 1500 jobs and increase the amount of aircraft maintenance done outside Australia. Last month, rolling strikes by engineers forced the cancellation of dozens of flights. A pilot with the airline told The Australian newspaper: "Qantas outsourcing maintenance to Malaysia is certainly worrying a lot of us pilots. There has been aircraft come back with dodgy staples to secure wiring." Qantas chief pilot Capt. Chris Manning said the airline's standards are "the same as they've always been - the highest...
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...etchings and drawings, especially those that make up the tormented series "Disasters of War," that Goya unleashed his most powerful critiques, and these are scattered throughout the Prado show. In stinging scenes that range from a ghastly militiaman butchering his enemies with an axe to a huddle of skeletal paupers begging miserably for scraps, "Disasters" exposes the lingering effects - moral, social and physical - of violence. Even for an audience accustomed to the barrage of brutal images emanating from Iraq and Afghanistan, these works, with their rough lines and muted colors, still - amazingly - possess the power to shock...
...described as "an amazing teacher who loved God, life, students and sport." Natasha Bray's father said the loss of his daughter had shaken his faith, but he did not blame the OPC. "They have got a process to go through," he said. "We don't have an axe to grind." But for the New Zealand public, the disaster may raise doubts about whether adventure activities should be a part of school education...