The problem we have sometimes is a media that responds only to slash-and-burn-style politics.
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The authors describe a gloomy town surrounded by thinning forests and blackened lands, apparently the work of slash-and-burn Dayak farmers.
Or set aside a certain amount of time each day (e.g. 20 minutes) to attack email, slash-and-burn your way through it.
Add to that some hostility from the Korean press, which has pegged Gale as a slash-and-burn opportunist, a typical American capitalist.
They even have the backing of two big international conservation groups, who claim the project will save the area from slash-and-burn farmers.
They must reject a slash-and-burn approach that will make the gap between rich and poor in the golden state ever more extreme.
Today, most conservative plans are of the slash-and-burn variety, to get costs down by cutting benefits, within the context of the existing program.
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They were not quite hunter-gatherers besides hunting and foraging, they also practised slash-and-burn agriculture but they did live in self-sufficient villages, and there was little disparity of income between villagers.
But when I went to visit a recently-created forest reserve, in which slash-and-burn farming has been strictly banned, I didn't see too much evidence of locals being consulted.
The fallacious thinking which underpins some of the slash-and-burn management tactics that tend to get traction during economic downturns can ultimately devastate a business that adopts a bunker mentality.
That means the paper is better equipped to get through difficult financial times without having to resort to the slash-and-burn tactics all too commonly deployed by newspapers owned by publicly traded media companies.
Of the four global regions inhabited by primates, the worst hit is Madagascar, where loss of habitat to traditional slash-and-burn agriculture has left some lemur species, such as Perrier's sifaka, stranded in tiny areas of forest.
In the USA, until the Reaganoids and other conservatives began their slash-and-burn assault on the federal education system, all public school children were required to have physical education (PE) classes either daily or periodically during the week.
It used to be that migrant workers would come from the more rural areas of Brazil during harvest season and essentially live at the mill for the season, using the old slash-and-burn technique to harvest the sugarcane.
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Mitt Romney, the slash-and-burn governor of Massachusetts, has raised hackles in academia by proposing to privatise, in large part, three campuses at the University of Massachusetts, to revamp its Amherst flagship campus with money from more out-of-state students and most heretically to do away with the office of the university president (currently occupied by one of his political foes).
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