Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...products internationally competitive, France cannot afford another round of inflation. De Gaulle's solution to this economic Chinese puzzle was to devise a 1959 budget that increased government investment by almost $500 million, yet sliced the anticipated deficit from $2.5 billion to $1.2 billion. The trick: a massive slash in government subsidies and social benefits, accompanied by a $625 million increase in taxes...
...Buick three times as many, and Plymouth is up 16%. But there are still not enough cars to meet demand and get a true picture of the market. Last week, to make matters worse, a five-day walkout of white-collar workers at Chrysler Corp. forced a 63% slash in output, and Rambler stopped production after the Budd plant at Gary, Ind., makers of Rambler underbodies, went on strike...
...their opponents, at times reducing Japan's postwar democracy to a mess. Faced with these outbursts, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi remained politely placid, meek and smiling. "But Kishi's smile," the Socialists admit with just a trace of admiration, "is like a rose-it has thorns that slash." Last week, faced with the toughest battle in his 21 months in office, Kishi injected some thorny parliamentary shenanigans...
...Plymouth," even though "prices will be up somewhat." Since Chevrolet has dropped its lowest-priced Delray line and Plymouth has scrapped its rock-bottom Plaza, the lowest-priced Ford Custom 300 is expected to sell for less than any other car of its two major competitors. Ford will also slash prices of its slow-rolling Edsel by "hundreds of dollars...
...slash in the 1958-9 athletic budget was cited by Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, as the reason for reductions in the size of the varsity cross country team...