Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The House yesterday approved President Bush's proposed cut in capital gains taxes, rejecting arguments of Democratic leaders that it would buy a windfall for the rich at the expense of a bigger budget deficit...
Majority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) called the plan "a $25,000-a-year tax cut on average to 375,000 American families--the wealthiest families in America--for some decision they already made--not for something they might do in the future...
...effort to save time during "warm-up," I offered to cut my leg muscles with a hedgeclipper. Satan just smiled. I don't think she heard me, though. She always smiles. She is probably smiling right...
Prior to last year, students were given two weeks from registration to hand in the cards. In an "experimental" effort to speed up sectioning, the College last year decided to cut shopping period down to one week...
Cambodian officials have repeatedly assured reporters that they are capable of fighting the guerrillas without Vietnamese military support, but they concede that some Phnom Penh residents have begun stocking rice and other staples in anticipation of a cut-off of supplies to the capital...