Word: slash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton listened to his top advisers debate the wisdom of cutting $238 billion out of Medicare and Medicaid over the next five years, and heard warnings that House liberals led by Henry Waxman of California would oppose the plan if a slash that deep was made. But Clinton reassured them, "We need to lead with what we think is the best approach. If Congress changes it, fine, but we will have looked at all the options and we will know why we chose what we choose...
...theories have been overturned by new evidence. Among their now outdated ideas: that the city centers of the Classic Maya were used primarily for ceremonial purposes, not for living; hieroglyphic texts described esoteric calendrical, astronomical and religious subjects but never recorded anything as mundane as rulers or historical events; slash-and- burn agriculture was the farming method of choice; and, of course, the Maya lived in blissful coexistence with one another...
...nearby in lovely New Haven sat a picture of Harvard's possible future--Yale. Yale the old. Yale the prestigious. Yale the crumbling, as even its own administration and student body admit. The costs of deferred maintenance there created budget deficits that made it necessary to slash departments...
...crippled Galileo probe to Jupiter, the badly designed and perpetually redesigned space station Freedom. By now, the U.S. space agency has a firmly established reputation for mounting expensive, ambitious projects that don't quite work right. At a time when Congress is looking at every possible way to slash the budget deficit, NASA has become an obvious target...
...form last Saturday. Looking wan but energetic, the Defense Secretary showed his mastery of detail as he briefed reporters on the Administration's proposed 1994 defense budget of $263.4 billion, down $10 billion from the current year. The budget is the first installment in Clinton's proposal to slash a total of $124 billion from defense spending over the next five years...