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...promises to cut and slash...
...asked to become Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, he accepted with alacrity. It was, after all, a chance to put into practice the budget gospel that he had been preaching during his two terms as a Congressman from southern Michigan: cut, cut and slash, slash. His boss has promised to slice 2% from the $640 billion budget for 1981; Stockman may push for more radical surgery. Earlier this year, he advocated abolishing federal revenue sharing with cities and states, paring back federal job programs, freezing Medicaid payments, and reducing appropriations for foreign aid, social...
...wants to obliterate the fact that he ever loved such an ugly woman. He is, in fact, unconsciously aping the Czech rulers who are persecuting him; he feels "an uncontrollable urge, an urge to reach far back into the past and smash it with his fist, an urge to slash the canvas of his youth to shreds...
Even the titles of the publications bear an affinity to Dadaism. The 1910s and '20s saw the creation of Dead Serious, Dada and Cloudpump; in the 1970s and '80s we have Impulse, Slash, Damage and Fetish. The element of satiric humor remains: Dada's contents included, "Painting, Sculpture, Drawings...and Vulgar Dillentantism"; Fetish proclaims itself "The Magazine of the Material World...
...lottery proposal is one of a number of bills proposed recently to alleviate the effects of Proposition 2 1/2, which will slash property tax revenues and could force hundreds of layoffs and the elimination of dozens of city programs, Cambridge officials said...