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slashes
verb
Third person singular of slash
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He has a pop from distance, but slashes his effort high and wide.
With a state budget plan outlined last week, Brownback aims to preserve his existing income tax slashes that drastically lowered top rates and made nearly 200,000 business owners exempt, and to triple the state cigarette tax from 79 cents to $2.29 per pack.
Twelve yards out, he slashes the rebound wide of the right post.
But recording and identifying recipients using biometric data, such as face, fingerprint and iris scans slashes the opportunity for fraud.
Hostility slashes at the fabric of Mitbestimmung, the consensual system (enshrined in law, lest anyone dares to dissent) which gives workers a say in management decisions and half of the seats on companies' supervisory boards.
Worse, it slashes legal aid, the public funding that helps mainly poor people get access to justice, and just as recession is causing more folk to turn to it.England and Wales spend about £2.1 billion a year on legal aid, more than half of it on criminal matters.
But they then signed on to a governing accord that immediately slashes the deficit by nearly 2% of GDP through tax hikes and budget cuts.
Bombardier is burning $1.5 billion a year in cash on the CSeries, and analysts worry that if it slashes its prices to try to win more customers, the group's cash may be drained in the next two years or so.The company insists it has the finances to see the project through.
Record companies have always been wary of the subscription model because it slashes margins and antagonises high-street retailers, with whom they are traditionally cosy.There are other problems.
More drastic tightening looms at the end of the year if George Bush's tax cuts, already extended once, expire, and a "sequester" automatically slashes federal outlays.Beneath all this, America's economy is slowly rebalancing itself.
Therefore, just when those cells are being told to undergo the error-prone process of replication and division and need their DNA-repair system most, CtBP slashes that system to ribbons.Though this is the first clear link between calorie intake and cancer that has been seen at the molecular level, Dr Gardner says his result is consistent with numerous past experiments.
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