Word: slashed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ralph Nader-backed consumer group called Voter Revolt to Cut Insurance Rates is pushing for Proposition 103, which would slash rates 20% and force companies to win regulatory approval before raising prices again. The insurance companies are staunchly opposed to any new government regulation. The measure would also prohibit firms from charging unusually high premiums solely on the basis of location (see illustration...
...expansion in modern history. The "misery index" -- that combination of inflation and unemployment rates that the Democrats invoked to bedevil Gerald Ford in 1976 -- now stands at less than 10, roughly half what it was when Jimmy Carter left office. Reagan has also fulfilled his antigovernment pledge to drastically slash income-tax rates...
That is a slippery conclusion, in which Masson blames psychiatrists because they do not agree with him. Although the author's slash-and-burn style of argument can be entertaining, readers should keep their hands on their wallets. Assertions tend to be sold as established facts. Masson writes, for example, that before psychotherapy begins, a "moral judgment" must be made that potential patients "are not living well, or as well as other people, and are therefore in need of 'help.' We often claim that the people seeking psychotherapy make this moral judgment on their own, but this is almost never...
...higher education community, on the otherhand, has traditionally responded to Bennett'scharges by blaming the Reagan Administration forseeking to slash federal funds for student aidover the past several years and for shifting theaid burden from grants to loans...
...March of 1976, the city's lack of fundingforced CUNY to slash its budget, and Medgar Everswas one of CUNY's 19 schools selected to be eitherdowngraded, merged or eliminated. Medgar Everssurvived the fiscal crisis, but was reduced to acommunity college...