Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...billion over five years, and will double to 200,000 the President's earlier projections on reducing the federal work force. That may be overoptimistic, but even considerably smaller savings might enable Clinton to hack his way out of a political tangle. The President has solemnly vowed to slice deeper into the federal deficit -- but how? The hairbreadth margins of his July budget victory indicate that further tax increases and deeper cuts in spending programs are politically undoable. Savings from streamlining the bureaucracy offer a feasible "third option" -- and there does not seem to be a fourth. Anyway, Clinton sold...
...risky? Then how about a getaway to the Gaza Strip? Most people think of this section of the Israeli-occupied territories as a wretched, raging refugee camp. But it also offers a gorgeous, unspoiled slice of Mediterranean beach. The residents of Gush Katif, a collection of Jewish settlements on the Strip, bid visitors to come and swim, thanks to a new road from the Israeli border enabling tourists to skirt rebellious Palestinian villages -- and thus reduce the risk of a Molotov cocktail through the windshield. Although Gush Katif's Palestinian laborers have twice turned on their employers and stabbed...
...timing." Visibly angry, he was also speaking for most of his NATO colleagues. As Europeans saw it, they had the besieged Bosnian government just where they wanted. President Alija Izetbegovic was ready to capitulate to a plan to partition Bosnia and Herzegovina into three ethnic zones, with the largest slice going to the biggest aggressors, the Serbs. However distasteful, it was a settlement that might end the war with a "negotiated," face-saving way out for the West...
...York City's Spanish Harlem, the highs come cheap. To create a "blunt," teenagers slice open a cigar and mix the tobacco with marijuana. To enhance the hit, they fashion "B-40s" by dipping the cigar in malt liquor. In Atlanta, police observed 100 teenagers and young adults at a rave party in an abandoned house -- the rage among middle-class youths everywhere with money to burn -- and their rich assortment of hooch: pot, uppers, downers, heroin, cocaine and Ecstasy, a powerful amphetamine. In Los Angeles, Hispanic gangs chill out by dipping their cigarettes in PCP (phencyclidine, an animal tranquilizer...
...this time. Despite troubles elsewhere, the stalled American car industry has suddenly reignited its engines. After a decade of losing ground to their Japanese rivals, Detroit automakers have been recapturing buyers and reclaiming a healthy slice of U.S. market share. The public's growing taste for Big Three cars and light trucks has allowed Ford, Chrysler and General . Motors to rack up welcome profits, following industry losses of $39 billion over the past two years. The recovery has also caught the eye of investors on Wall Street, who have bid up the price of U.S. carmakers' stock more than...