Word: chopping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When South Carolina Senator Ernest Rollings, ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee, moved the next day to chop $7 billion out of the $22 billion in cost-of-living increases likely next year, he lost by eight votes. The splintered Democrats could not prevent the Republicans from cutting Medicaid and unemployment compensation and other social programs $200 million more than Reagan had requested, and all but four went along with a move by Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum to lessen a cut in the lending authority of the Export-Import Bank, a step that benefits big corporations...
...Though the President calculated that his proposals would slash spending by $48.6 billion, the committee staff estimated the actual reduction at $42.9 billion. Of that, $8.8 billion is to be saved by administrative actions, leaving $34.1 billion, by committee arithmetic, that Congress is being asked to chop...
Farmers Home Administration. Since this agency spends some $14.5 billion a year among the nation's farmers and in small rural communities, it has strong backing from many of the nation's Congressmen. Reagan is proposing to chop only some $100 million out of FHA's 1982 outlays, but by reducing commitments for grants and loans to build water and sewage systems in small towns, future savings would grow substantially. The agency's most personal service has been to lend farmers who cannot get conventional loans the money they need to plant their crops, buy land...
...devil with three heads and six arms who can do anything she wants." Then, just before the courtroom drama concluded with her forcible eviction, she once again declared her willingness to die for her cause. "I only wish," she said, "that I had several heads for you to chop...
...eighth, the Phillies knotted the contest at 3-3 as Bowa beat out an infield chop, Smith drew a walk, and Pete Rose connected for the first time this series, pounding a single to drive Bowa...