Word: slash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harsh death-penalty provisions, nevertheless agreed to help return the bill to the House floor for further debate. At week's end members of both parties were discussing a deal that would create a sexual-predator task force, make minor revisions in the measure's assault-weapons ban, and slash more than 10% of the bill's $33 billion funding...
...Canadian government averted a possible trade war with the U.S. this week by agreeing to slash annual wheat exports to 1.5 million metric tons. The wheat pact fulfilled Clinton's pre-NAFTA promises to grain-growing states that he would challenge alleged Canadian subsidies of the industry...
...Philip Morris chairman who tried unsuccessfully to separate the company's food and cigarette divisions announced his resignation. Michael Miles, a nonsmoker and the first company head from outside the tobacco industry, was also responsible for last year's controversial decision to slash the price of Marlboro cigarettes...
...jeremiads are filled with two-dollar words that actually add up. "We are going over a Niagara of psychobabble in a barrel full of holes," he complains. "We have become a country of ragged recidivists dedicated to the proposition that all parents are created equally bad and the progeny-slash- progenitor dynamic should be the landfill for all our personal shortcomings...
...cancer therapy. It still looks difficult to eradicate malignant cells, but scientists are exploring ways to tame them, to make them behave and thus greatly prolong the lives of people with the disease. The new therapies carry the promise of being not only more effective than the current slash-and- burn strategy but also much gentler to the patients who must endure the treatment. Exclaims Dr. Dennis Slamon, a UCLA cancer specialist: "This is the most exciting time imaginable...