Word: slashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic running mates were almost unable to focus attention on the many issues they want to employ against Reagan in their long-shot battle to wipe out the President's commanding lead in popular support. The furor sublimated Mondale's long-awaited unveiling of his plan to slash the huge federal deficit by two-thirds within four years (see following story). The only hope for the Democrats in the reli gious controversy was that a backlash might grow against the intrusion of the bishops, as well as Protestant Fundamentalists, into partisan politics...
...manufacturers work both sides of the line to slash costs...
...Mondale said, "is haywire and completely off. He has some hocus-pocus numbers there." In fact, until Mondale explains exactly where he would cut programs and raise taxes, the average family's prospective share is uncertain. However, a $1,500-per-household increase would by itself slash the 1984 deficit by $125 billion, or two-thirds...
...Ugandan government responded that all the talk of human rights abuses was "highly distorted." It announced the suspension of a $100,000 program to train Ugandan officers in the U.S. and barred an American military attache from entering the country. Congress, meanwhile, took steps to slash $7 million from $9 million in aid to Uganda...
...orneriness of American motorists. Car owners have been illegally filling an estimated 13% of the no-lead vehicles on the road with leaded gas, which costs an average of 7? per gal. less than the unleaded variety. Last week the EPA fought back. It proposed rules that would slash the amount of lead in leaded gasoline by 91%, starting...