Word: cutters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...days of being sworn in last month as Georgia's first G.O.P. Governor since Reconstruction, Sonny Perdue proposed one of the state's biggest tax hikes ever. Though he backed off when legislators balked, other Republican Governors are forging ahead. Connecticut's John Rowland, elected as a tax cutter in 1994, began his third term by proposing a 1% income-tax surcharge on millionaires. G.O.P. Governors are also pushing new taxes in Idaho, Arkansas, Ohio and Nevada. The Democrats, meanwhile, are mostly relying on spending cuts to balance the books. California's Gray Davis...
Hyperbole is nothing new at this annual showcase of just about every gizmo ever featured on, or destined for, an infomercial. The $6 Pizza Fork combines a pizza cutter and fork in one utensil ("Easy! Amazing! Versatile!" screams the flyer). The $80 Cooper Cooler chills a can of soda in 60 sec.--after you add 24 ice cubes and two cups of cold water and plug the thing into the wall...
...definitely picked up our play in the second,” Pell said. “We try to take it shift by shift. Our specific focus is on small goals, like finding the open cutter. The small things lead to big plays...
...standing in the way of national security, taking away from the president’s ability to lead our nation in a time of crisis. Each claim is equally bogus, but worse than the inaccuracy is what such a one-tune rhetoric has resulted in: a slate of cookie-cutter candidates who are not individuals but mere members of their political parties...
...bomb. In the week following the Bali explosion that killed nearly 200, Ramlah Yasin sat on the floor of an office at a shuttered factory on the outskirts of Jakarta wondering if she, too, should be counted as a victim. Yasin, 30, worked for 11 years as a cloth cutter on the assembly lines of a shoe manufacturer, but a month ago her employer was forced to close after U.S. athletic gear giant Nike stopped ordering sneakers. Yasin has been looking for work, but now she has begun to despair. "Many orders from America could be moved away from Indonesia...