Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York last week published a tart reply from Rukeyser. He claimed Dorfman wrote an "attempted hatchet job" because he had been dropped from the show. Wrote Rukeyser: "I have been reminding viewers each week that no recommendations are guaranteed, that analysts differ, that nobody bats...
...freshman was a little unnecessarily rough," Carrabino said. "They put him on me as in kind of hatchet man I just couldn't allow that I'm a senior, this is my home court. I've got to retain some kind of respect...
...Reagan might approach his next four years in office with the spirit of moderation so noticeably absent from his first term, out comes the Administration's preliminary budget proposals. Wednesday's announcement of budget targets for the upcoming fiscal year was just another episode in a long series "of hatchet" jobs on social programs that have come to characterize the Reagan tenure in office. Offered in the guise of fiscal sobriety, the President's plans will serve mainly to exacerbate further many of the social inequalities governments are normally charged to erase...
...MAJORITY opinion does a fairly decent job of glorifying Congressional opponents to the President's budget proposals as champions of ordinary passed vigilant against Reagan's "hatchet job on several programs." Sadly, it seems that the message heard resoundingly at the polls only a month ago has been lost on everyone but the President. We can only hope he stands fast in the months to come on his pledge to millions of hard-working Americans to restrain the growth of federal spending, even in the face of overwhelming "conventional wisdom" in the little world of Washington that "it just...
Dole, 61, a tall, lean man with a ready grin, spent eight years in the House before winning a Senate seat in 1968. He has a reputation as an adroit legislative craftsman and a fierce competitor. His biting wit is legendary, but the vituperative remarks that earned him the "hatchet man" label as Gerald Ford's 1976 running mate are rare now. More typical is the comment he made last week when his wife presented him with a congratulatory schnauzer named Leader. Deadpanned Dole: "It's an indication of where my leadership is going. Housebroken but not Senate...