Word: slash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making sacrifices. Johnson, echoed ranking Republican Committeeman John W. Byrnes, must tell the people: "We can't afford the gravy and the butter-we've got to get down to the guns and the necessities." Before he will change his mind, Mills insists that the President must slash billions from housekeeping bills and defer new projects, as the U.S. has always done in wartime...
...Algeciras, whose ancestors fled the invading British in 1704. (The United Nations, which supports this view, also refused to accept the referendum.) To show its displeasure at Britain's insistence on keeping the rock, Spain has imposed on Gibraltar a series of annoyances, ranging from a slash in the number of Spanish men workers (from 14,500 to 6,000) who cross daily into the colony to a ban on border crossings by all vehicles. The Spanish government seems to be laying the groundwork for an eventual sealing of the border entirely: it is planning to industrialize the area...
...some items, mostly wool products, worth $250 million in annual trade, were not so sweet as those talked about over the bargaining table. A mistake? Not at all. The wool-product rate, the U.S. reminded them, was tied to the rate for raw wool -and the U.S. agreement to slash raw-wool tariffs was contingent on wool-producing Australia's agreement to lower its customs barriers against U.S. tobacco. The tobacco deal, as it turned out, went up in smoke-and with it, the U.S. concessions on Common Market wool products...
...immoral, un-Zambian" and "sex-ridden flaunted fripperies" of the white world. Determined to do away with such dangers to their native culture, young U.N.I.P. militants and grim, middle-aged female vigilantes armed with straight razors have stationed themselves as "morality guards" in public places. They stand ready to slash stitches and drop offending hems at the least excuse. Just as if miniskirts were difficult to spot, Zambian girls are often stopped and ordered to pick up a penny thrown on the sidewalk-if the man from U.N.I.P. sees too much leg, out comes the razor. To go with their...
...reinforcing political ties between the U.S. and Europe. As some economists see it, the Kennedy Round also means the virtual demise of tariffs as an important obstacle to trade. On thousands of manufactured goods-including autos, machinery, ceramics, cameras and hats-most industrial countries agreed to slash their tariffs by the full 50% that Kennedy originally sought. As a result, the average tariff wall around U.S., British and Canadian imports will fall from today's 18% to about 10%. Common Market levies will shrink by one-third from their present 13.2%, and those imposed by such countries as Switzerland...