Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appetite whetted, Clarence Cannon's Appropriations Committee reconvened, lectured 18 agencies on buying new cars, hiring additional employees or constructing plush buildings, then cut their requests by $500 million. Feeling the shock hardest: the Veterans Administration, which took a $206 million slash...
...which include tennis balls, long underwear and iron stewpots, but do not include gasoline or green vegetables (up 33% in the past year). Seventeen times in the past ten months, as the index trembled toward 149.1, white-goateed Socialist Ramadier forced it down by devices ranging from a 20% slash in the Paris price of government-owned cooking gas to abolition of the tax which Parisians pay for street cleaning and trash collection...
...near monopoly that the slash and drip school of painters has clamped on the Manhattan art world for the past decade is beginning to crack up. The first signs of change came with the shift to a gentler, moody type of semi-landscape-painting which critics are calling abstract impressionism (TIME, Feb. 20, 1956). Last week one of the leading pioneers of abstract painting stunned his comrades with an about-face show that pointed to a new and radically different solution. See ART, The Bottle...
Programs for lopping big chunks off that $72 billion are piling up. New Hampshire's Bridges suggests nicks and slashes adding up to a hefty $3.3 billion. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, working on his yearly clipped-wing "Byrd budget," promises that he will show Congress how to save at least $5 billion, but has yet to produce the details. The National Association of Manufacturers, whose President Ernest G. Swigert last week damned Ike's budget as "extravagant and inflationary," proposes a massive whack of $6.5 billion. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls for cuts totaling...
...Congress has knifed out of presidential aid requests over the past four years: 21.6%. Atop that, he wants to eliminate programs totaling $225 million which he considers not in keeping with "the declared and enacted policy of Congress." e.g., aid to Communist Yugoslavia. The N.A.M. calls for an aid slash of $2.2 billion, or 50%, the Chamber of Commerce for a somewhat less drastic $1.5 billion...