Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When I bought an air ticket at the supersaver fare last month, I got a price break because I had to reserve and pay 30 days in advance. If the airlines are now going to impose additional service cuts (e.g., restriction to the back-cabin seats, fewer and slower refreshments), then I believe an additional fare cut is in order...
...biggest single contributor to inflation. With pride, he pointed out that his Administration had reduced the federal budget deficit, a prime contributor to inflation, from $66 billion in Gerald Ford's last year as President, to less than $40 billion in the current fiscal year. He pledged to cut it to "$30 billion or less" next year. As part of the effort to do so, he said he would veto any plan for any income tax cut beyond the $18.7 billion slash recently enacted by Congress, even though "tax reduction has never been more politically popular than it is today...
With Stage II, Carter may not have bitten the bullet, but at least he bit the aspirin. The much debated new program is harmless enough, and it may give the President some time and space to do what needs to be done: cut the bloat in the budget, reduce costly regulation, encourage the Federal Reserve Board to let the money supply grow only slowly and steadily. That, and only that, can slow the price spiral...
Griffin's newly aggressive campaigning has cut Levin's lead in the polls by more than half. But the Senator now is in the most difficult period for a Michigan Republican: traditionally, Democratic candidates get stronger in the closing week of campaigns as the state's large labor vote begins to solidify. If that pattern holds, Griffin next week may find himself just where he once wanted to be?out of the U.S. Senate...
...working assumption," he told TIME, was that "the criminal justice system could make a huge difference." That proved overly hopeful. Police commissioners around the country, he learned, "simply do not know what to do to reduce crime." For example, expensive new communications systems have been widely installed to cut down the time it takes a police car to reach the scene of a crime. Yet the speedup proved only marginally useful; as one study revealed, victims usually wait up to an hour before they even call the police. Without citizen cooperation, says Silberman, police can do little to crack crimes...