Word: cut
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Otherwise, the Environmental Protection Agency has all but washed its hands of the air pollution problem, threatening to cut off federal funding if state and local leaders cannot find their own way of reducing pollution to acceptable levels. The federal government can therefore not be counted on to solve the problem...
...former Congressional candidate James Roosevelt '68 said yesterday, "Question Five is a one-sided, purely anti-Israel, pro-PLO piece of propaganda that tries to cut off our only ally in the Middle East." Roosevelt, now a Boston lawyer, also wrote an article criticizing the referendum in last week's edition of the Cambridge Chronicle...
Senior forward Sharon Hayes sparked the Crimson comeback, scoring 12 points over the 10-minute stretch. Hayes netted key back-to-back baskets to cut the margin to eight, and fired in the go-ahead bucket following a missed Crimson free throw...
...unaware of the fact, certainly, that we have something called a safety net for the truly needy, and as in some work I did on the budget, when I looked at the numbers, I discovered that the means-tested programs that went to the poor were cut three times as much as the non-means tested...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has often proclaimed that terrorists must be deprived of the "oxygen of publicity." Last week she tried to cut off the air supply of the Irish Republican Army by banning radio and television interviews with members of the outlawed guerrilla group and its political arm, Sinn Fein (including Gerry Adams, the party's sole representative in Parliament). The action, which also applied to some Protestant extremist groups, marked the most sweeping British censorship decision since World War II. The Republic of Ireland has maintained a similar ban since...