Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people that got TSS up and running in 1966-67. Unlike Windows 3.1, TSS time slice appropriations were under the control of the system operator, through the supervisor (resident program in core memory). The reason was the same then as now; people exaggerate the priority of their applications. Roy Bercaw Cambridge...
...young mother jumped into her car, and headed to her secretarial job at the IRS five blocks away. Her colleagues had bought a cake and soda in celebration of Smith's 23rd birthday on Friday. As she stood up to slice the cake, she heard the blast and the building shook. From the windows they could see the smoke rising: "We thought it was the bank," recalls Smith. "I turned to a co-worker and said that's so sad. That's some little child's mother that's been killed...
REMEMBER ONE THING the next time you scoop up a tray and head for the food: each hamburger you eat, every slice of pizza and every cup of soup is carefully monitored by the Dining Services' central computer...
...House Republican majority won a 227-200 vote to slice $17 billion from federal programs, ranging from public housing to public broadcasting, then pushed $100 billion more in reductions through a divided budget committee as a way of funding tax cuts. Calling today's cuts "irresponsible and mean-spirited," White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta immediately promised that President Clinton would veto the legislation. The $100 million package, expected to pass the House by month's end, would help fund $190 billion in tax cuts over five years, most of them for a $500 per child tax credit...
...sanctions on South Africa. A supporter of the defeated balanced-budget amendment, he is rare among his colleagues in proposing specific cuts that hurt a powerful constituency that happens to be his own: farmers. He is leading the charge against farm subsidies, proposing cuts of $15 billion--a 30% slice...