Word: slash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Badly framed laws have allowed new highways to slash senselessly through residential areas, uprooting thousands of families and needlessly destroying neighborhoods. In New Orleans, an expressway now planned over local protest will bring the roar of rushing traffic to the historic Vieux Carre. In New York City, a 20-year-old controversy still swirls about a proposed Lower Manhattan expressway while the decaying area through which it is to run decays further because no one wants to risk improving properties that may yet be destroyed...
...President used the old device of calling for cutbacks in popular programs that he knows Congress is highly unlikely to slash. Among them: cuts of $150 million in agricultural conservation, $85 million in aid for depressed-area schools and $52 million in the school milk program. Any plan to take milk away from the kiddies is not going to get very far in Congress. Johnson also trimmed his allowances for emergency disaster relief by $100 million on the theory that there will be fewer disasters in 1967, a kind of Parkinsonian precept that the number and gravity of disasters depend...
...little-girl look is in? The Italians turned out their models in white stockings and low-cut boys' shoes. Dresses are above the knee? Why not halfway up the thigh? The bare, bare look is right for the evening? Then loop one-shoulder gowns down to the waist, slash the skirts up to the thigh...
...ideas popularized by Soviet Economist Evsei Liberman, the command economies of Communist Europe are openly and eagerly adopting such capitalist tenets as cost accounting and the profit motive. East Germany, Czechoslovakia and other formerly Stalinist satrapies are cautiously granting more powers to local managers to. boost or slash production, prices, investments and labor forces. State enterprises in Poland, Hungary and Rumania this year closed deals to start joint companies in partnership with capitalist Western firms...
Jorge Gonzalez, the Santurce, P. R., senior, has been moved up to Dennis McCullough's slot on the first line with leading scorer Kent Parrot and right wing Pete Waldinger. McCullough, who was seeing double from a slash above the eye by a Northeastern stick, may return to play against Toronto Saturday...