Word: gutting
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...wrong state to depend on. Public servants are ignorant or lazy or just plain crazy. But Spoon and Stretch aren't your ideal victims. Their signature act of social aggression is to smoke cigarettes in government offices. Their way of bonding is for one to give the other a gut wound with a penknife. They're the Jerky Boys, playing mortal pranks on themselves...
...Rush Limbaugh: "Rush is very fat. Huge, enormous, fat. Humongous. He has this huge gut. Big ass. Huge...
Still, in a knowledge-based economy, vibrant growth depends most on innovation and worker competence. Clinton knows this in his gut, so he talks about "collapsing overlapping and outdated training programs into a G.I. Bill for America's workers." But even in its most ambitious iteration, the President's current plan would basically target only displaced workers; it would do little for the vast majority of employees whose wages are stagnant primarily because they have no opportunity, on the job or on their own, to upgrade their skills and therefore their prospects...
...then there's Gen Ed, everyone's favorite "scrapple of the guts," as this publication termed it earlier this year. I have one of my favorite teaching fellows ever, I'm reading some of the best books I've encountered in college, and I like going to lecture. Sure, if you want it to be a gut, you can make it that, but I honestly believe you can make most anything a gut. You owe it to yourself to do better than that...
...referendum on national policy; former House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local" has rarely been so widely flouted. Democrats pleaded with voters to repudiate the so-called revolution of O'Neill's successor twice removed, Newt Gingrich, whom they pictured as avid to gut all programs of government help to the poor and middle class and use the savings for tax cuts that would make the rich still more wealthy. Gingrich himself estimates that 75,000 Democratic ads around the country attacked him by name, a figure that seems reasonable to reporters who traveled with...