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These cost reductions aren't cutting for cutting's sake: they target the permanent transformation of the Hungarian economic model, from one in which it was possible to live a life reliant on the state for subsistence to one in which every able Hungarian can work to support his or her family and generate economic activity.
Forget Austerity, Follow Hungary's Lead Zsolt Becsey 2011
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These cost reductions aren't cutting for cutting's sake: they target the permanent transformation of the Hungarian economic model, from one in which it was possible to live a life reliant on the state for subsistence to one in which every able Hungarian can work to support his or her family and generate economic activity.
Forget Austerity, Follow Hungary's Lead Zsolt Becsey 2011
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The thing for us not to do is to blindly make budget cuts for cutting's sake, without considering which government programs spur economic growth and which don't.
Leo Hindery, Jr.: The South Korea FTA -- It May Be 'Free', But It Sure Isn't 'Fair' Jr. Leo Hindery 2010
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I am never more at peace than when I am cutting; I am never more tortured than in cutting's red wake.
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But the cutting's like an anesthetic, says Wendy Lader, cofounder of Safe Alternatives.
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But the cutting's like an anesthetic, says Wendy Lader, co-founder of SAFE Alternatives.
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The lane dropped into a deep cutting, its banks too steep and wet for any horse to climb, and at the cutting's end was a barricade of felled trees put there to check any French attempt to attack in the other direction.
Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990
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Audley thought for a moment, imposing the facts on the first cutting's interpretation of the treasure laws.
War Game Price, Anthony 1976
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Starting with the Republicans, one can only assume that they have committed themselves to cutting expenditures purely for cutting's sake, with little or no thought given to the consequences.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jr. Leo Hindery 2011
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