Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...branches. Among the descendants of an African woman called Lijsbeth, for instance, were the President of the Transvaal republic in the Boer War, "Oom (Uncle) Paul" Kruger, and South Africa's first Prime Minister, Louis Botha. In all, Hattingh counted 80 families of mixed racial roots, a substantial slice of the white Afrikaner establishment...
...most vivd examples of broad federal cuts in the Reagan plan that will slice into Harvard research projects is the expected 75 per cent reduction in the social and economic divisions...
...Hampshire, where taxes are among the nation's lowest, Governor Hugh Gallen wants to slice the state employment rolls by 10% in order to help erase the state's $25 million deficit. Michigan officials were forced to borrow $500 million last month to meet the state's bills, and North Carolina Governor James Hunt is proposing eliminating 1,000 state jobs...
...calamity of tremendous proportions, and the old business-as-usual treatment can't save us." The fault, he said, lies in an explosive growth of Government spending, "punitive" taxes and excessive regulation that are sapping the economy's productive strength. The only solution, he said, is to slice both spending and taxes, deeply and together...
Soon after the hilarious Douglas Show sequence, though, Shrinking Woman starts to deteriorate. Schumacher and Wagner cop out; their cruel and gleeful dissection of the tacky American bourgeoisie stops in mid-slice: there are no more scences of Pat and her hubby getting frisky to the beat of Muzak disco, no more jokes about Explodo-Gum, the treat that causes green saliva to ooze from the mouths of sweet-toothed kids. Instead, the filmmakers concentrate on a hackneyed sub-plot about the Organization for World Management, a sinister group of slick, young corporate types who plot to control the world...