Word: slash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned towards me, reached out a hand towards my neck, held for about two seconds and then I ran off. There was a slash in my jacket from the razor blade," she said...
Armed with banners and belligerence, some 40,000 European farmers marched on the seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Contending that trade agreements would slash a source of their livelihoods, government subsidies, the farmers burned effigies of the principal U.S. and European trade negotiators. A smaller, satellite protest pelted police with a fusillade of cobblestones, paint and eggs -- the last presumably a product of those beloved subsidies...
...loss of 50 administrative and support staff positions from 1991-1992, and a projected 20 more by 1993, will slash $2.5 million from the budget...
...round of negotiations, but at the last minute a proposed settlement was scuttled over a plan to cap annual oilseed production in Europe. The E.C. agreed to reduce the production limit from 12.5 million tons to 11 million tons but refused to accede to American requests to slash it again to 8.5 million tons. It was this standoff that finally drove Hills to take action...
...Impatient with Stempel's slowness in carrying out plans to close 21 of GM's 120 North American plants and cut 74,000 of its 370,000 employees over three years, directors now want to eliminate a total of 120,000 jobs during the decade. A major goal: to slash GM's labor costs of nearly $2,360 per car, which is almost $800 more than Ford's and $500 more than Chrysler's. "It's going to be brutal," warns a GM director. "If the unions won't cooperate, GM will have to play real hardball...