Word: whacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gradual gas-tax hikes are enacted, they can easily be canceled out by mileage gains. Before, it cost you, say, $12 in gasoline to drive 200 miles. Now they raise the tax -- and it still costs you $12. How painful is that? Especially if it means taking a significant whack out of our $300 billion annual deficit...
...easy it is to depict baseball as a simpleminded rogues' gallery of ego- driven owners and selfish superstars. In fact, Bonds' salary is not out of whack, especially compared with that of a journeyman shortstop like Spike Owen (lifetime batting average .243), who signed a three-year, $7 million contract with the Yankees...
...attacks stunned the $75 billion U.S. pharmaceutical industry, long the country's most profitable manufacturing sector and one of its last world leaders in developing new products. On Wall Street, fear of possible government price controls has helped whack 15% from the collective value of pharmaceutical stocks this year. Frightened drug firms have responded with a spirited defense, including full-page newspaper and magazine ads proclaiming the benefits of their products...
...district. Said Tim Penny of Minnesota: "It appears to have survived the coffee-shop test." Several legislators said a start on reining in Social Security, the biggest of all entitlements, would make it possible later to examine others: veterans' benefits, for example. Clinton has been talking about taking a whack out of some other entitlement programs even this year, but so far not in very specific terms...
...president's plan will then be run through the Cuisinart that is Congress. Each member will whack away at specific cuts that will anger his or her constituents. Lobbyists will be wearing holes in the carpets of Congressional hallways fighting to protect the interests of their memberships. And not all of these lobbyists will be the hideous creatures that they are made out to be, many will be representing real Americans with real concerns. This will only make the necessity of denying them money more difficult...