Word: cut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...raising the age of eligibility--even though, back in 1935, when it was set at 65, the average life expectancy was 61. Conservatives now see the fruits of restraint bearing the seeds of future deficits, if Congress approves all kinds of new spending this summer that can't be cut back whether the surplus actually materializes...
Dreben served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) between 1973 and 1975, where he cut graduate school enrollments while championing academic ideals...
...their right flank since Reagan invited ultra-conservatives into the tent, and running hard to the center since Bob Dole fell flat in 1996. Impeachment, as America shrugged all the way on its descent into Bill Bennett?s cultural hell, may have sealed the deal. Pragmatic governors and tax-cut hawks are the party stars, and social conservatives are simply not welcome on the national stage. Among the spurned, there has been plenty of disappointed talk, but only someone as crotchety as Smith has the chutzpah to leave the GOP tent for the lean-tos of a Reform party...
Travel agents, by contrast, are fighting for their future in an increasingly hostile environment. Both tour operators and airlines have cut agents' commissions from 10% to 7%. Agencies' core business is also under pressure from the Internet and its ability to reflect modern lifestyles. Until recently, most people splurged on one major vacation. Now many Americans and Europeans are taking several short and often impromptu breaks throughout the year. Travelocity, the world's largest online travel-booking site, advertises last-minute deals, while Microsoft's Expedia travel website offers comprehensive guides for spur-of-the-moment business travelers. One agency...
...With the two camps squaring off for what may be a decisive parliamentary election next year, hard-liners may be tempted to provoke chaos in order to scare voters away from reform, or to justify a further tightening of authoritarian social control. "Provoking confrontation could cut the ground out from under Khatami," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "But it?s a risky course, because it could eventually leave the hard-liners facing a unified rebellion from the population." Monday?s protests went ahead despite an order by Tehran?s National Security Council forbidding demonstrations without official permission. And as much...