The Clinton administration has deftly dismissed their tax-cut proposals as a reckless give-away to the rich, portraying itself as the prudent guardian of public finances.
Making it worse: Financial markets had widely anticipated the quarter-point cut, taking away much of its impact on juicing stocks.
They would have to be running these programs in the face of the largest cut to Medicaid that has ever been proposed -- a cut that, according to one nonpartisan group, would take away health care for about 19 million Americans -- 19 million.
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While iconic slogans of Syria's President Bashar Assad appear to have been put away, cardboard cut-outs of Iran's leaders loom large over southern Lebanon, and the party faithful still hail Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, as their Wali al-Faqih, or clergyman-commander.
The electricity tariff cut lowered the index by 0.45%, so if one takes away the one-off effect of this cut, and maintaining all other items the same, the price index would have reached 1.13% higher month over month, or a whopping 14.44% annualized.
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But this is not to say that Bush walked away with a clear-cut victory.
In palladium, managed-money accounts whittled away both gross longs and shorts, but cut more shorts than longs, lifting the net-long to 10, 874 contracts.
Blackburn probed away without creating a clear-cut chance but Arsenal always looked a threat on the break - and so it proved on 80 minutes when Eboue's run was brought to an end by Stephen Warnock's sliding tackle in the box.
Dyer again twisted and turned Naylor inside out for Swansea's second clear-cut opening after sprinting onto Andrea Orlandi's cute pass behind Naylor but Cardiff keeper Heaton palmed away his near-post drive.
Mr Romney would sweep all that away, cut Medicaid sharply and turn Medicare into a voucher-based scheme.
And he found that he could cut the dropout rate dramatically by doing away with homework and incorporating income-generating activities such as fish cultivation and livestock rearing in the school curriculum.
After months of work to strengthen and re-point the stone walls, the first piece of steelwork was cut away and removed by a crane on Friday.
Its razor-sharp leaves can maim, and workmen (called jimadores) who cut away the leaves to get at the heart must do a careful dance.
And if you go across the river to Ham, only a matter of a few minutes walk away from Teddington, there is an island of council housing, cut-off from the commuter trains and upwardly-mobile cafe bars.
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Mr Brown gave the game away by saying there would also be a 2p per litre cut in lead-replacement petrol.
Once again the government has shied away from sacking civil servants, despite a commitment to cut the bloated public-sector payroll by 150, 000 over the next three years.
Atlanta cut the lead to 81-67 at the end of three, but the Pacers put it away with a 12-4 fourth-quarter run to that left Atlanta in a 21-point deficit.
And yet, within an hour she was live on CNN explaining away the pepper-spray incident to host Don Lemon, who had to cut her off a few times because her responses were so long-winded.
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He followed a straight-driven four with a hook for six, but got a little carried away and cut the next one straight to gully.
In America, cut-price no-frills carriers, such as Southwest Airlines, have already begun to take business away from the majors, often by flying from secondary airports where more slots are available.
When 72 percent say the budget surplus should first be used to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, it's impossible to make a case for giving all the surplus away in a giant, unnecessary, unwanted, across-the-board tax cut.
Non-commercials continued to whittle away at their net-long position, which now is 19, 473 contracts, having cut gross longs and added gross shorts.
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And half-empty hotels may be reluctant to cut room prices, because raising them again when demand recovers could drive away repeat customers as well as bargain hunters.
She sauntered away and left me facing a spare man of ordinary height, whose reddish-fair hair was cut very short and glistened in the artificial light from the hallway.
In the past decade and a half U.S. manufacturers cut the number of injuries and illnesses involving days away from work from 352 to 141 per 10, 000 full-time workers.
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