Most of the sites took off in 2009, when even wealthy people severely slashed their spending.
Two years ago, when he was first confronted with the Republican refusal to raise the debt ceiling, Mr. Obama blinked and agreed to a budget control law that severely slashed domestic spending and will continue to do so for years through the sequester.
Because of the rules of the collective bargaining agreement, the number of unrestricted free agents was severely slashed last off-season, and the union has been concerned that owners engaged in a concerted effort to slow the market further.
Professors were outraged, especially since academic department budgets had been severely slashed for years, class sizes had ballooned and a study had listed Oregon's faculty as among the lowest paid when compared with institutions of similar size.
Ms. Seong was investigated by a grand jury in Ms. Hong's murder, and is also facing charges of severely slashing another of Mr. Ko's ex-girlfriends, four months before Ms. Hong was found in March 1998 at her apartment on West 113th Street with her throat slashed.
At the moment, most mass transit agencies are having their budgets severely slashed, and nobody is rebuilding subdivisions.
This year alone I've seen a severely burned, slashed, and decapitated woman set on fire with lighter fluid in a home, and a man fall through the roof of a local commercial facility to his death, taking off some of his head on the way down.
But for drivers with an intrepid spirit -- roads can, of course, get treacherous -- the timing is right: rental companies slash prices severely, and most tour companies don't.
In the weeks and months following the de-risking of AIG's CDOs, the ratings of those seven deals were slashed severely.
