Word: cutter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months, Proctor established a reputation as a relentless budget-cutter throughout the University...
...which is expected in the next few weeks), chairman Michael Jordan and other company officials have declined to give any details of their plans for the network. But Westinghouse, a veteran broadcaster that owns five TV and 16 radio stations, is known in the business as an aggressive cost cutter. Observers both inside and outside CBS think that doesn't bode well. "Larry Tisch has cut costs considerably over the years," says Dennis McAlpine, media analyst at Josephthal, Lyon & Ross. "The headquarters at Black Rock is decimated. There isn't that much [left] to get rid of. And this...
...today often appears worse than dowdy. To them it looks oafish, overgrown, hypocritical, rife with ineptitude and possibly--as some overwrought Americans insist on seeing it--downright wicked. By this light, the creation of a half-century ago comports with reality now about as much as the cookie-cutter shapes of its East River edifices still evoke an idealized modernity. Budget-strapped, groping for a fresh start, the U.N. seems to slouch toward the millennium like a limping panhandler...
...explain the atrociousness of the situation, how the budget crisis had to be solved, and why America had to live within its means. Last week Neumann was again hauling out the math and the charts and the graphics, but this time as a freshman Congressman and real-life budget cutter returning home from a historic budget-busting session of the House of Representatives. How would this play in the First District of Wisconsin? And would his constituents think it all added...
...Anjelica Huston). It's the political amnesty and boatlift of 1980 that promises to reunite them. It's another Perez, no relation, who gives them a new life utterly unlike the one they yearned for all those years. Her name is Dottie. She is a hooker-turned-sugar-cane-cutter, and Marisa Tomei plays her, most wonderfully, as a force of nature, a small hurricane gusting along on her own headlong agenda, ripping the roofs off everyone's expectations...