Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year's battle of the budget will be not the President but the Secretary of Defense. It was Weinberger who persuaded Reagan to reject pleas that the Administration pare its military-spending requests sharply before presenting them to Congress. Consequently, the man once known as Cap the Knife (when he was President Nixon's Budget Director) has become the target of congressional budget cutters. After a meeting last week at which Republican Senators could not get the Secretary to yield a dollar, Mark Hatfield of Oregon termed Weinberger "a draft dodger" in the war against deficits...
...selling his budgets is simplicity itself: arrive at a total and keep insisting that it is uncuttable. Every year at budget time, other Administration operatives pressure Weinberger to pare back his spending request. The President invariably sides with Weinberger. He continues to think of him as Cap the Knife, a budgetmaker who does not ask for anything that is not necessary. Says Frank Carlucci, Weinberger's deputy for two years and now a Sears, Roebuck executive: "It's that constituency of one that makes all the difference...
...Morse said may have been drinking or taking drugs, then wandered into a room where a student was washing dishes. She was holding a knife and asked him to leave, at which point he shouted and ran away, Morse added...
...never saw a pattern," Binder said. "But once they got the knife in, they knew how to rip us apart...
...repairs. One of the first steps was to install security fences and better lighting. Such measures irritated the thieves and drug peddlers who ruled the streets. They tore down the fences. Lindsey and some neighbors put the fences up again, then stood guard. One thug attacked Lindsey with a knife, slashed through his windbreaker and cut his stomach. Lindsey whipped out a .38 and shoved it under the knifer's nose. "I told him to get on his knees and beg," says Lindsey. "I could have killed that...