Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...developed an aversion to taking political risks after his proposed 1997 overhaul of the state's property-tax law, a highly ambitious attempt to correct some ancient inequities in the system, ended in a revolt by G.O.P. legislators and business allies. Bush was able to salvage a tax cut from the fiasco, but he told TIME last fall that the experience taught him that "the status quo is really powerful. In times when there is not a crisis, it's hard to get people to act boldly." And Bush knows from watching his father what happens when a desire...
That was the year the Berlin Wall came down, but Cheney arrived at the Pentagon as a Gorbachev skeptic, unconvinced that this was the beginning of a new era in which the U.S. defense budget could be reduced by much. In the end, he delivered a 25% cut in the military, which required a major rethinking of Pentagon doctrine, and an ambitious and politically difficult plan for closing military bases in the U.S. He also went after some of the expensive but dubious weapons programs he had supported in Congress. He canceled the Navy's $57 billion A-12 attack...
...George in his shaggy '80s hairdo holding them - and he starts reminiscing. "It seems like just yesterday we were at the hospital," and he gets lost in the phrasing, "uh, uh... havin' birth..." And he and Laura crack up. This is a blooper. Al Gore, you think, would have cut and rolled take two. But what does Dubya care? He and Laura laugh each other goofy. I couldn't even think of the words for havin' a baby! "I like to laugh," he says...
...problem is death by a thousand cuts. "Everybody takes out their knife and does surgery on some portion of the bill so you end up with everybody slashing at everything," grouses a senior State Department official. "How are we supposed to support democracy around the world if they keep cutting our democracy and development fund?" For example, money for peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and other trouble spots has been cut by a third. The Senate has slashed by 71 percent funds Clinton wanted to use to relieve Africa's crushing debt, which administration aides say is critical to fighting poverty...
...Then there's embassy security. The State Department has been under fire from Congress for lax security at its foreign posts ever since terror attacks two years ago Monday at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 263. But the Senate bill would cut $137 million earmarked for security upgrades overseas...