Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council is likely to seek a loan from BayBanks and will still have to drastically cut next year's social budget. But Treasurer Michael R. Kelsen '90 said that the deficit will not affect grants to student organizations...
Unwilling to offend large, politically powerful constituencies, Bush refused to tax costly, non means-based entitlement programs like Social Security or Medicare for the wealthy or to put a lid on popular tax breaks for the middle class, such as mortgage interest deductions, and instead urged a dramatic cut in the tax rate on capital gains...
...hard to overlook the foreign policy achievements of the new President. The proposed arms reductions, aptly timed for the NATO summit, are critical indicators of the new President's approach to international security. It calls for Moscow to cut in half its troop presence in Eastern Europe--attaining a ceiling of 275,000 soldiers. Accordingly, NATO allies will reduce troops by 30,000 to meet the ceiling...
...that time, Cambridge was governed by 13 councillors, which like many contemporary Eastern city governments kept power and ran their cities by a system of patronage, offering jobs and benefits to supporters. Under the Littauer Center's proposed Plan E, the number of councillors would be cut to nine, and a city manager would be named by the council to handle administrative duties--including employee hiring and benefit dispensation...
...When I come here, I think that the United States is the center of democracy in the world," he said. "But [American leaders] don't support democracy in China--I don't know why. They could speak directly to the leaders or cut econmic support. Right now I don't see anything...