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The RPH might also believe in eliminating the income tax (Keyes), slashing the income tax and raising tariffs (Buchanan), or rejiggering the tax code to save taxpayers $985 billion (Ashcroft, by abolishing taxes on inheritances and on Social Security benefits, among other measures).
But even though many have said that the IMF's bailout regime of imposing higher interest rates and slashing government spending exacerbated the spin-out in South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia, the report says that its tight money approach was basically right.
Nike announces it's slashing $100 million from its marketing budget and plans to re-evaluate all its ad campaigns over the next six months.
One might have imagined that, in the face of a larger client base and the difficult task of integrating two separate corporate organizations, computer systems, and cultures, slashing payrolls would not have been Job 1. But then one would, of course, have imagined wrongly.
Will became opinion journalism's enfant terrible , slashing the dearest liberal icons and pushing a hard-right foreign policy.