Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Council members say the $20 term bill fee--used to fund student groups since 1983--is no longer sufficient meet demands on the council's budget. A referendum to raise the term bill fee to $50 failed by 80 votes last year in the same election that cut the council in half...
...council has cut costs where it can, skipping the beloved fried dough during last year's Springfest because council members didn't think it was cost-effective...
...people. He wooed them with the prospect of being "normal" again, promising "a dull, average European country with an average economy, an average relationship with its neighbors, an average political life." When Milosevic's thugs pelted him with tomatoes and rocks at a campaign rally, he took a cut beneath the eye before retreating, then calmly declared that the assault showed "Milosevic is weaker than ever...
Bush would allow younger workers to invest part of their payroll taxes--about 2 percent of their income--in personal retirement accounts. He promises not to raise payroll taxes and says he won't cut benefits for current retirees. Since the money paid into Social Security by workers now is paid directly to older beneficiaries, the Gore campaign wonders where Bush will make up the incomes slated for the new personal retirement accounts...
...with the market stumbling of late, thanks to lower corporate earnings and higher oil prices, Bush has begun painting a picture of a fragile prosperity - one that Clinton-Gore helped create but that Gore-Lieberman would bury. He painted Gore's targeted tax cuts as social engineering - "with him, we can only get a tax cut if we behave as he wants us to" - and his programs as welfare for bureaucrats. "We'll find ourselves working harder for the government, appeasing it, please it and trying to keep it at bay," he said. "More forms to fill out, more regulations...