Word: slash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Citing low earnings and increased shoplifting, then-Coop President Milton P. Brown '40 announced the store would slash its rebate by more than 50 percent...
...President is calling. He wants you, the big cheese at Megawhiz Amalgamated, to come to Washington to discuss "corporate responsibility." You are thinking, "I need this? Wall Street is screaming for me to slash jobs and increase the stock price; competitors are breathing down my neck; and tort lawyers are cruising the open oceans of commerce like so many U-boats, hoping to catch my logo in their periscopes. And the President wants to discuss responsibility...
...launched the Casino Queen in June 1993 recouped their money in six months--and have been raking in profits ever since. Meanwhile, taxes on the riverboat's $150 million annual revenues have doubled the city's budget to $12 million, allowing East St. Louis to reduce property levies 30%, slash its debt, double the number of police officers and patrol cars, and thus cut the murder rate by a third. The boat, with 1,250 workers, is now the city's largest employer. Says Mayor Gordon Bush: "It is bringing about the city's renaissance...
...MONTHS I WATCHED THE EVER changing definition of "negativity" in the primary coverage. First there was hand wringing over negative ads by Steve Forbes. The next round of slash-and- burn advertising was between Dole and Alexander. Now the vitriol is directed at the followers of Buchanan. This has become a feeding frenzy by a smarmy coalition of Establishment Republicans, Democrats and newsies from left and right. I am an agnostic pro-choice woman living not a mile from Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs. There are no skinheads here. There is no hate here. The hate, venom...
...sense, the two women correspond to the yin and yang of Buchanan's own personality. The slash-and-burn, take-no-prisoners campaign chairman reflects Pat's public persona, while the gracious lady of the house reflects the private Pat, whom his former colleague Michael Kinsley once described as "gentle" and almost everyone else considers amiable...