Word: slash
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Several balls flew around at waist level. More than one body fell to the turf. Two players received green cards for "unecessary roughness," specifically a slash and a cleat in the stomach. Loren Ambinder broke her nose in a head-on collision...
Over the years, Chelsea absorbed a heavy stream of poor immigrants who receive substantial amounts of welfare. Despite a $9 million deficit (in a $40 million budget), voters refuse to increase taxes, and city officials are unwilling to slash services. Result: schools still have not reopened this fall, and municipal employees are payless. The Massachusetts legislature last Wednesday empowered a private receiver to seize control of Chelsea and impose such drastic changes as revising police, fire and teacher contracts and suspending zoning rules. But lawmakers fear that Chelsea will demand new state funds, which may inspire other struggling towns...
...past decade, researchers in developed countries have realized that they have much to learn from traditional agriculture. Formerly, such farming was often viewed as inefficient and downright destructive. "Slash and burn" agriculture, in particular, was viewed with contempt. Following this method, tribes burn down a section of forest, farm the land until it is exhausted and then move on to clear another patch of trees. This strategy has been blamed for the rapid loss of tropical rain forests...
...vast debt load that companies assumed in the 1980s, American firms can no longer afford to hire back workers anywhere near as briskly as they have done after past recessions. Quite the contrary: as banks, retailers, computer makers, defense contractors and other firms from Boston to Burbank slash their payrolls in the face of falling profits, experts say nearly half the 1.6 million jobs the economy has lost in just the past 13 months may never be restored...
...recovery acknowledge that it is likely to be weak. And an upturn will not put an end to the basic problems affecting the changing work force." Concurs Harvard's Reich, who has been one of the Democrats' chief economic gurus: "Efforts to improve productivity by using a slash-and-burn policy with employees could backfire. The remaining workers can be resentful and demoralized because they are stuck doing two jobs or more. It may all backfire and lead to lower productivity...