Word: slash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barely a period into the game he watched Ian Kennish hurt his hand on a Cornell slash, and suddenly Ronn Tomassoni had another assignment in store for the kid from Stoneham, Mass...
Clinton's new budget is even tougher than last year's. To comply with spending caps enacted in 1990 and reinforced last August, Clinton aims to slash outlays for nine of 14 federal departments, ranging from Education to Agriculture. That will distribute tens of billions of dollars in budget cuts over some 300 government programs. More than 100 others would be eliminated outright, stretching from a Commerce Department undersea research project to a program aimed at helping keep students from dropping out of school...
...fact, the plan is riddled with price controls. The government would be able to decide how much the alliances could spend on health care through a system of tight controls on insurance premiums. The government would also set prices for new drugs. Alliances would have the power to slash doctor and hospital fees in order to meet the rigid new budget limits...
...both cases, a devoted core of students, faculty and alumni rightly protested the University's claims that the relatively small programs were not financially feasible to maintain. As Harvard continues to slash costs and raise revenues, we can expect more such conflicts. Indeed, we should be quick to raise questions anytime the world's wealthiest university cuts a program for lack of funds...
...decades Californians have lived in fear of the tectonic monster that inhabits the San Andreas Fault, a spectacular, 800-mile-long slash through the earth's surface. But last week's earthquake was a sobering reminder that the mighty San Andreas is not the state's only seismic menace. A web of smaller cracks crisscrosses the fragile California crust. Many of these faults are well known. But others lie hidden deep underground, like the one that gave Los Angeles its latest disaster. Until the earth moved, the residents of the northwestern suburb of Northridge had no idea that a deadly...