Mr. Lampert led the charge for cost reductions, and his management team became machete-wielding slashers.

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If you want growth, you need Central Banks to come in as buyers and interest rate slashers.

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The liberals would be Germany's most radical slashers of individual and corporation tax and of subsidies to ailing industries.

ECONOMIST: Germany��s choice