Word: slashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hubert Humphrey's Senate seat, Congressman Donald Eraser was narrowly defeated by a conservative millionaire businessman, Robert Short. Eraser was one of the few Democratic candidates who still defended costly social programs. Short called Eraser's liberalism a "burden on the people" and urged a $100 billion slash in the federal budget. Even the Republican Senate candidate, Dave Durenberger, is less of a budget cutter than Short, an indication of the upheaval in the once powerful D.F.L...
Before returning to Washington, Carter attended a Democratic fund-raising luncheon where he predicted Congress will approve a $25 billion tax cut this year. He also attacked the Republican Kemp-Roth plan that would slash income taxes by one-third...
...those aren't the issues in the 1978 campaign: former Cambridge Mayor Barbara Ackermanndoesn't have the money to mount an effective liberal challenge to Dukakis. And former MassPort Director Ed King would not only slash the incomes of poor people, he'd also sweep environmental, consumer and women's issues under the carpet. Dukakis will win again, but there is no joy in Mudville...
...hear the soft-spoken judge tell the story, when he became the judge of Gulf County (pop. 11,000) he waded into a backwater Watergate. A land of slash pines, Cyprus swamps and oldtime backroom politics, it has been the fiefdom of U.S. Representative Robert ("He-Coon") Sikes, who last year was stripped of a congressional subcommittee chairmanship because of financial misconduct. Taunton publicly charged that former State Senator George Tapper engaged in an "elaborate, corrupt political scheme" with State Representative William J. ("Billy Joe") Rish, Sikes and others to profit from intricate land deals at the public...
...boats were placidly trawling off the southern shore of Thailand on a moonlit night. Suddenly the fishermen spotted two dark silhouettes clipping toward them across the water. Skipper Kimheng Phonsawat, 47, did not wait to identify them. Crouching low over his wheel, he instantly directed both his boats to slash their nets and make for nearby Ko Kut Island at full throttle. "I could tell by the sound that the other boats had 300-h.p. engines," he recalled. "As one of them pulled alongside, we came under rifle fire." Three of Kimheng's crew were killed, but then...