Word: slashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Security payments. One plan tentatively accepted by both Domenici and Jones is to postpone for three months the cost of living adjustments scheduled for next July and then peg future COLAs at 2 or 3 percentage points below the consumer price index. All told, the entire bipartisan package would slash $80 billion off the CBO's projected $180 billion shortfall, enough to reassure the financial markets...
Nigeria depends on oil exports for 90% of its foreign exchange earnings and 85% of its government revenues. But weakening worldwide demand for crude has forced the country to slash production from 2.1 million bbl. daily to fewer than 900,000 bbl. by last week. In the process, estimated earnings from oil exports have plunged from $ 1.35 billion per month only a few weeks ago to perhaps as little as $700 million at current production levels, and the country has been compelled to dip deep into its foreign reserve holdings. Nigeria is now paying more than $1.8 billion each month...
Thirty seven seconds later, Neil Sheehy and the Badgers Ted Pearson, who appears ready and willing to badger anybody that happens to be around got into a little scrap alongside the Harvard net, and each took a roughing penalty. However Sheehy had a slash tacked on for good measure, and so Harvard would be short handed for two minutes after Pearson returned...
...short of cash and badly need to sell every barrel of crude they can pump. One such country is Nigeria, which is burdened with a population of 80 million and a superambitious agricultural development program. In a desperate move to boost sales, the government last week threatened to slash a full $5 per bbl. off its officially quoted $36.50 price, in order to compete with non-OPEC oil from the North...
...Black's first day at work that he suddenly discovered the company was ready to announce a big quarterly loss. To slash costs, he moved the firm's headquarters to Chicago to be closer to AM's plants and sold off the high-tech acquisitions. As the company's prospects continued to deteriorate, though, Black decided to sue. Last week AM International announced that he had quit to avoid a conflict between his employment and the lawsuit...