Word: cuts
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...moment, government must lead the way." A partial Obama to-do list, only some of it done, includes a remake of the health care and energy sectors; a $787 billion stimulus bill aimed, so far, mostly at public employment; takeovers of General Motors and Chrysler; a "pay czar" to cut salaries at bailed-out banks and a proposed new consumer-protection agency to police the nation's lenders...
Many chefs, including Brown and Alex Stratta, of Alex at Wynn Las Vegas, think of their eating habits as addictions they needed to kick. "You don't cut back on heroin, you don't cut back on smoking; you either quit or you don't," says Brown, who now snacks incessantly on avocados, sardines and almonds, having given up almost everything bad for him. "I decided there were foods I was just not going to have. I've probably had three tons of French fries in my life. I don't need any more French fries." (See video...
Miller's manager Julia Mitelman '13, whom she met through the Freshman Arts Program, helped coordinate the event and introduced Miller's performance. As she gave a long explanation of what Miller would be singing, Miller playfully cut her off to inform the crowd that Mitelman was just stalling for time while her friend got the video camera running...
...right-wing lapdog by embracing progressive causes like gay rights - a stance that has scandalized the country's Catholic Church. As an economist in the 1970s and '80s, Piñera followed Chile's free-market orthodoxy, but on the stump today, he pledged not to cut social programs. "On the contrary," he said recently, "we're going to strengthen them." Says Michael Shifter, vice president of the InterAmerican Dialogue in Washington, D.C.: "Chilean voters have been eager to see that kind of pragmatic evolution from the right." (See how Pinochet fell from power, from TIME's archive...
After Pizzotti had been cut from the Jets, his agents had been talking to different teams trying to get the Harvard grad a tryout...