Word: slash
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...group of conservatives tried to slash funding for the project, known as Census 2000. When this failed, they haggled with Driskell over individual census questions...
...College Harry R. Lewis '68--who seems to be perpetually logged in to his multiple e-mail accounts--has often said that he will respond to any message sent to him by students. But when 877 first-years sign a petition asking their dean to reconsider his decision to slash the size of blocking groups, Lewis dismisses their concerns, saying that his Committee on House Life--a collection of College administrators, House masters and deferential, resume-padding representatives from the Undergraduate Council--was more than adequately equipped to make a decision that would affect the Class of 2003, a constituency...
...subject and has criticized Bush's "cold-war mind-set." But the Texas Governor cast the Vice President as the real foreign-policy troglodyte by proposing to upend the dominance of offensive weapons over defenses, long central to nuclear peace. As President, he said, he would unilaterally slash U.S. nukes, take the remaining ones off hair-trigger alert, then "invite" Moscow to follow suit. To keep the nation safe, he'd build a vast shield to protect the entire U.S. and its allies against all rogue-state missiles...
...Fred Muggs, for one 47. Finn's transport 51. South Carolina's House voted to remove it 52. Meth. or Luth. 53. Natural emollient 54. Croupier's need 55. Kind of fingerprinting 56. O'Hara spread 57. [see other side] 58. Sloppy place 59. __ drug-makers have agreed to slash prices for Third World countries...
...everyone loses. The op-ed crowd, of course, cries foul. Voters are deprived of an informed choice. The real victim, ironically, is the candidate, who is denied a mandate. Ronald Reagan fuzzed many details when he ran for President; and he was a tad optimistic about being able to slash taxes and raise defense spending and balance the budget at the same time. But he did earn a mandate for lowering tax rates. That's one reason he was able to persuade Democrats in Congress to pass his supply-side cuts. Portraying himself as more like Reagan than his father...