Word: cut
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Unfortunately, The Crimson Staff has once again devoted its daily editorial space to bashing the Undergraduate Council (Editorial, Jan. 13). The Staff praises council downsizing as a way to "cut dead-weight" from the council and ensure competitive and interesting elections...
Based on the arguments about downsizing at Harvard, one might think that across the Ivy League, all student governments had "deadweight" to cut from a large membership, but this is not the case. Twenty students represent an undergraduate population of 4,000 on the Columbia College Student Council and fewer than 30 students represent 12,000 undergraduates on the Cornell Student Assembly...
...that Clinton didn't take for himself -- that hardy perennial, the tax cut. The good news for Republicans: In dismissing the Clinton Social Security plan before a House committee Wednesday, Fed chair Alan Greenspan had kind words to say about the GOP push for a 10 percent across-the-board tax cut. Now if only Greenspan would start guest-hosting the "The 700 Club...
Some professors say the labor dispute may have been cut short because players were concerned by all their once-loyal fans calling them greedy and spoiled...
Warned by the FBI, Israel spotted the first arrivals from Denver a few months ago. In contrast to the messianic Christians who wander around in biblical robes and hang around Jerusalem's Old City, the cultists were well-dressed, clean-cut individuals who easily passed for tourists. But an Israeli security official contends that the Concerned Christians were preparing for a "big provocation" on the Temple Mount aimed at instigating a war between Arabs and Jews that would culminate in Armaggedon. Deciding not to wait for the end of the world, the Israelis raided two houses where 14 cult members...