slash-and-burn

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The extreme red / blue polarization is due in part to the constant ballot fights on gay rights issues, and the current sad state of the Republican party is due in part to the slash-and-burn tactics of Lon Mabon, the chairman of the now-defunct OCA.

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  1. adjective Of or being a form of agriculture in which an area of forest is cleared by cutting and burning and is then planted, usually for several seasons, before being left to return to forest.
  2. adjective Drastic or destructive: "The past few years of painful, slash-and-burn expense cutting have made top brokerage executives reluctant to revert to their former, profligate ways” (David Henry).

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  • Mr. Steele thinks White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is "running the entire government," noting he is not known for bipartisanship, but for slash-and-burn politics. —  Daily Kos
  • Political paralysis, press panic attacks, depression-inducing radio and a slash-and-burn approach to costs could stifle the emergence of a proper start-up culture in this country, experts on start-ups said yesterday at University College Dublin Business School. —  Silicon Republic - News
  • (04 / 24 / 2007) Colonialism may have worsened slash-and-burn deforestation in Borneo according to a new study published by a researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia. —  Mongabay.com News
  • Biotropica, Wright and Muller-Landau demonstrate a relationship between human population density-especially in rural areas-and forest cover, suggesting that most deforestation results from subsistence slash-and-burn agriculture. —  Mongabay.com News
  • Severe deforestation for slash-and-burn cultivation ( "tavy") has left their surroundings nearly completely devoid of trees. —  Mongabay.com News
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