"I'm not coming here with a big axe to swing and cut everything out, " he said.

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Murtha now wants to axe big parts of military IO, even though he doesn't really understand the concept himself.

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Labor is where the big expense lies, and labor is where the axe almost always comes crashing down.

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The broadcaster, which has faced calls to axe the show completely, was ordered to conduct a review of Big Brother by its board earlier this week.

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She also said the a big attraction of prison visitors were that they were "independent, had no axe to grind and were not part of the system".

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He will be replaced by Bernard Cazeneuve, the Europe minister, who will immediately have to wrestle with his fellow ministers over where the axe will fall in an unprecedented effort to cut France's big public spending bill.

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"Technology is clearly having a big impact on the way we try and build our brands at Unilever, particularly on a brand like Axe, which is targeted at 12- to 24-year-old guys who are the most media-savvy and technologically savvy generation ever, " he said.

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