Word: slashe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buttressed by such figures, Schäffer recommended a step that other Western European states could only envy, not emulate: a 15% slash in income taxes, a 20% cut in corporation levies...
...principle. The specific ingredients in the Provost's package seem to ring hollow when their equity is tested. First, a more liberal dispensation of towels and tickets will naturally increase the costs of the athletic program. Thus, the cost per student, even when spread among everybody, could not appreciably slash the present cost of a participation card and a ticket book, which presenty mounts up to $170 for four years. This is a large chunk, even when stretched over a college career...
...banker for the whole Commonwealth, he had good news for them: a sterling area solidly in the black last November, and backed by a $128 million surplus. But the good news was tempered with a startling announcement. To keep the recovery solid, said Churchill, Britain has decided to slash its defense spending by as much as 29% in the next two years; the original three-year rearmament program would now take up to five years. That announcement, made to Parliament by a less forceful Prime Minister, might well have rocked the nation's confidence. Secure...
...once by the Gropius-Hudnut clash, he has shied from trying a similar combination. For many years, however, Design's faculty worked together smoothly, and the school led its field. It broke down, not basically because of personalities, but mainly because of a mounting deficit which forced Hudnut to slash Gropius' teaching program...
...same time, the three chairmen reasserted that they made "absolutely no agreement" whereby they should have notified Grote when reducing the price of ther merged dances from $3:60 to $2.80. The chairmen claimed that the price slash was "a matter of competition" and resulted from House members complaining $3.60 was too high...