Word: slash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as token a gambit as this four-second solution seems refreshing amid the depressing political landscape. It might be tempting to cast the media consultants as villains who substitute deceptive advertising techniques for high-minded dialogue. But many admakers feel as trapped by slash-and-burn campaigning as the hapless voters. "I hate going negative," says G.O.P. consultant Don Ringe, who is creating ads for Senate candidates in Colorado and Hawaii. "But all of us, Democrats and Republicans, are corrupted by the system...
Weld, responding to concerns that CLT would slash badly-needed funds for public education, said that it is "not an area where the hammer is going to fall," although he added that too much money in the state's higher education budget is currently being spent on administration rather than on the faculties of the state's schools...
...marchers also protested ballot Question 3, a proposal to cut state spending, saying it would slash funding for services like education and health care...
...those who lived through the Second World War, the fear of German aggression is most salient. Despite assurances in the reunification treaty that Germany will slash its fighting force to 345,000 soldiers and renounce chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, the memory of three horrible conflagrations in the past 120 years dies hard. Notions of an aggressive and authoritarian "German character" abound...
...budget negotiators remain far apart over who should bear the burden of politically explosive cuts in entitlement spending. Though both sides are willing to slash $73 billion from Medicare over the next five years, the agreement ends there. The White House would spread the pain equally among doctors, hospitals and patients, but the Democrats have avoided specific proposals...