Word: slash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Proceed with production of the Navy's A-12 attack bomber, but slash the purchase order from 858 to 620. This was the first public confirmation that Cheney assumes that the Navy will operate with twelve aircraft-carrier battle groups, two less than at present. It also means no longer relying on the % Navy's A-6 attack...
Hundreds of towns will face layoffs as top military contractors slash their payrolls and cancel deals with smaller firms. Weapons manufacturers will scramble to develop new commercial products and expand markets for the military goods they will still produce. For many companies, the shifts will require fundamental changes in operating habits as firms accustomed to serving a free-spending Pentagon learn to compete with more efficient commercial producers, especially Asian ones...
BOSTON--Thousands of student demonstrators marched on the State House yesterday, waving signs and chanting in protest of proposals to further slash the budget for the Mass. higher education system...
...Bush budget would slash completely the State Student Incentive Grant (SSIG) program--which currently receives approximately $59 million from the federal government--and would eliminate federal contributions to the Perkins Loan Program--which gets about $159 million. In addition, the administration would freeze spending on Supplemental Grants and College Work-Study programs...
Bush thus finds himself defending the Social Security tax increase while getting pummeled by Moynihan and his allies. Watching this spectacle unfold last week, Bruce Thompson, a Merrill Lynch executive who helped slash taxes as a senior Treasury official during the Reagan Administration, chuckled and noted that "not in ten years have you seen headlines read WHITE HOUSE REJECTS...