Word: slashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students and Israeli soldiers and police. But the chief cause of the government's rapidly declining popularity at home is the parlous state of the Israeli economy, which suffers from triple-digit inflation, high taxes, scarce and expensive housing, and unemployment. Following up on a previous decision to slash $140 million from the defense budget, the five-member economic Cabinet headed by Finance Minister Yigael Hurvitz last week recommended overall budget cuts of an additional $108 million. Indeed, Hurvitz is so worried about the state of the economy that he may resign from the government...
...once written, immediately become proof that they were busy." Besides, if they actually did their jobs and, say, abolished poverty, they might then be out of a job. Bureaucrats show amazing energy, however, when it comes to protecting their turf against budget cutters. If ordered to trim, they invariably slash essential services so that howls of protest will force the cuts to be restored...
...that big, but Detroit has been wrong before. If the EV renaissance that G&W is talking about comes to pass, it could save 225 million bbl. of oil a year, even allowing for some oil-generated electricity to charge the cars' batteries. In current dollars, that could slash the U.S. trade deficit...
Ronald Reagan, Carter's certain Republican opponent, has been talking up a 30% slash in income tax rates phased in over three years, which the White House views as inflationary. Thus the stage is set for a weird role reversal: the Republican candidate assailing a Democratic President for fighting inflation by inducing unemployment; the President countering by accusing the Republican of proposing inflation to combat recession...
...comprehensive economic policy in a speech last Friday, but after reading a draft prepared by aides, he put off that effort and huddled again with his advisers. The key issue is how deep a tax cut Reagan should advocate. During the primaries he has talked of slashing income tax rates 30% over three years. At times he has sounded as though he thought the idea is an economic cureall, prompting Bush to attack him for practicing "voodoo economics." Bush contends that so drastic a slash would worsen inflation by ballooning the federal deficit...