Word: slashed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics claim that her real goal is to slash the agency's budget and staff so deeply that it cannot function. Gorsuch has volunteered reductions in EPA spending from $1.36 billion a year when she took office to less than $950 million by fiscal 1983. A ranking official of EPA last week disclosed that Gorsuch is readying dismissal notices for at least 750 of the agency's 4,200 Washington headquarters staff and probably for a commensurate percentage of the 5,800 field staff. Those cuts would come on top of the 1,000 jobs already eliminated...
...each zone would receive a battery of tax cuts and credits that would cost taxpayers billions of dollars annually. But while supporters advertise the enterprise zone plan as an economic stimulus, its massive tax-writeoffs will create few new jobs for the needy and force the Administration to slash further the support services so crucial to urban areas...
...Blasters (Slash). Hard fun and easy lyricism from five Los Angeles rockers...
...Wild Gift (Slash). Garage-band rock with no quarter given...
...same period of 1980. The United Auto Workers executive board has given its bargaining councils permission to renegotiate current contracts and grant wage concessions to the troubled car companies. Employee groups at several ailing airlines, including Braniff and Pan Am, have already agreed to a 10% pay slash...