Word: slashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, most of which are eager for yet another boost. Algeria and Venezuela are considering cutting back production in an attempt to keep prices at their current levels. In Kuwait, the government recently beat back an attempt by some members of Parliament to slash daily output to 1.5 million bbl. from 2.5 million...
...point Marie (Bernadette Lafont) quietly gets up and goes into the bathroom where she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, and Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Leaud) panics. When, later on, Alexandre himself gets up and goes to the medicine cabinet, you expect him to do something equally dramatic--to slash his wrists, for example. Instead he sprays his face with cologne...
...Portugal, the public euphoria that followed the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship is gradually giving way to an atmosphere of uncertainty and some political tension. Denmark's minority government could fall this week when the legislature votes on a controversial proposal to slash welfare benefits. Even tiny Iceland, once an island of stability 500 miles from Britain out in the North Atlantic, has caught the spreading governmental malaise. After the country's ruling three-party coalition split up last week over how to deal with a rate of inflation that could reach 42% this year, Premier Olafur...
...administration and Nixon's most pernicious policies ever since he became vice president. During his 25 years in the House of Representatives, Ford stood for the same sorts of priorities the Nixon regime has always held. As a young congressman, Ford quickly won a reputation for trying to slash government expenditures--except for those involving space and "defense" programs. During his campaign to succeed Charles Halleck as House minority leader, Ford promised a new, more constructive approach to formulating Republican policies in Congress. But his own views, it soon became clear, had not changed very much--he could just implement...
Unlike the budget that he submitted a year ago, which set out to eliminate large chunks of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs, the new budget has no controversial decisions to kill or slash popular programs. Neither does it have any major initiatives for new programs, though spending will rise by nearly $30 billion, to a record $304.5 billion. With his power on Capitol Hill diminished by Watergate and with Congress on the verge of considering whether to impeach him, Nixon may well have decided that big initiatives would not get off the ground...