"We just went through a dark, ten-year-long nightmare under the Harper regime where programs and services were harshly cut back and I think this is the consequence of it," Phillip said.
Nevermind that South Carolina has harshly cut funding to SCSU for nearly a decade, and along the way, has refused to participate in a federally mandated program to match funds from the US Department of Agriculture to the land-grant HBCU. .
I recall the Duchess of Devonshire explaining, with much regret, that on the death of the previous Duke, the state had taken a whopping great sum, which had cut harshly into the fabulous Chatsworth estate.
HONG KONG — Grief over a Chinese student who was killed in the Boston Marathon bombing rippled across her home country on Wednesday as Internet sites and news reports described and celebrated a young woman whose ambitions for a career in finance were cut harshly short.
Governments binge on spending during booms and cut back harshly during busts.
Almost every possible interest group was appeased with some tasty morsel; hospices, people buying or selling homes worth £25,000 (where stamp duty used to cut in so harshly), apprentices, commuters across the Pennines, widows and widowers who can now inherit pensions and ISAs, kids going on planes, you name it, Mr Osborne had a amuse-bouche for them.
Those dependent on government subsidies to supply their tables will feel these increases more harshly as cuts to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or SNAP, as the food stamp program is called) go forward.
Mr. Boyd, former chairman of Airbus North America, said Mr. Leahy sometimes treated employees harshly if they did not perform, and cut them off from communication.
It has cut some of its exorbitant fees and harshly imposed penalty charges.
This appeared to cut no ice with the electorate, who judged him harshly.
The plan calls for the power authority — which has been harshly criticized for its response to storms, including Hurricane Sandy — to sharply cut the size of its staff and reduce its role in managing the power-distribution system.
