Word: chops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million to this state in revenue sharing and pointing out how clearly dependent New Hampshire is on this money. Other Governors also will bring the necessary weight in Congress to stop this approach." Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit warned of a "long, hot summer" if Congress votes to chop federal programs that help cities. Said Young: "If there must be pain, let it be spread across the whole budget. Let it be felt in the Defense Department as well as the summer jobs program...
...longer-range strategy to counter the Soviet Union's initiatives in Central and Southwestern Asia. "Act tough" was the predictable advice offered by one of Peking's diplomats at the U.N. "Teach the Soviets a lesson, that's what you've got to do," said he, making a karate chop. "If you don't, the big bear reaches out for more." But overreaction could be as dangerous as retreat. Not only might too bellicose an American policy provoke a superpower confrontation, but it would greatly concern U.S. allies situated near the U.S.S.R. and perhaps prompt them to seek their...