She said the killer had used a knife but switched to a meat cleaver when unsuccessful.
But dumb meat cleaver cuts such as the looming sequestration could push our economy back into recession.
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In reality, however, in taking a meat cleaver to the unions, Thatcher was tackling the symptoms not the disease.
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It's all a reminder that this is, after all, a big automobile, a half-size larger than a 3-series BMW more meat cleaver than filleting knife.
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You don't have to be like the New York City firefighters who recently tackled the guy attacking his wife with a meat cleaver in broad daylight.
Leon Panetta has completed his final overseas trip as US defence secretary, being presented by his staff with a plastic meat cleaver as a parting gift.
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During his tenure, he has struggled against automatic spending cuts to the defence budget totalling billions of dollars, a process he frequently likened to a meat cleaver.
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Former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie was beaten over the head and killed before her body was hacked into six pieces with a meat cleaver, the Old Bailey has heard.
"If Congress allows this meat-cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness, it will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research, it won't consider whether we're cutting some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness or a vital service that Americans depend on every single day, " Obama said.
President Obama often claims he wants to cut the budget smartly, using a "scalpel" not a meat axe, machete, cleaver or chainsaw, to list a few of his favorite metaphors.
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