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.

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It abandons the traditional stealth gameplay for all-out hack and slash swordplay.

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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.

BBC: School PE lesson

As with all dungeon-crawler, hack-and-slash action RPGs, the gameplay does get old after a while.

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Last year the convention center jettisoned about a dozen supervisors and placing 23 of its 44 full-time events workers on a call-in-as-needed status, all part of an effort to slash operating costs and free up tax revenue that the city of Minneapolis might use elsewhere.

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First, it will slash the number of its brands from eight to three--maybe not all at once but eventually.

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And all that borrowing to buy Wyeth, of course, forced Pfizer to slash its once- generous dividend.

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Organisers praised Slash, who grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, as "one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time".

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