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Example sentences for: slashed

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The Post lead quotes an American nuclear security expert saying that the Russian economy is the world's greatest proliferation threat--since the ruble was devalued last summer, the government has slashed the salaries of nuclear plant workers and guards, which means not only fewer people protecting the nukes but also more people prone to the temptations of selling them.
All this sounds awful, until you remember that nobody has been attacked, bashed, slashed, burned, blowtorched, lacerated, or destroyed.
If what you say is true, the estate tax (an absurd violation of "family values") wouldn't exist, and capital gains taxes would be slashed.
Still more have become unemployed or had their salaries slashed as the banking, media and consumer-goods businesses have switched from boom to bust."
The suicides tend to be respectables who've never previously been in any kind of trouble and are desperate to escape the impending humiliation, like the former Air Force pilot in Maine who asphyxiated himself, the University of Connecticut microbiologist who slashed his wrists, or the Colorado computer consultant who shot himself in the head.