"My daughter used to cry and say she looked ugly after having a short hair cut," Wang said. "Fortunately I no longer have to do that."

“我女儿一提到要剪短发就哭，因为她觉得剪完头发之后自己变得特别丑，”王女士说道，“现在好了，我再也不用劝她了。”

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Part of the problem with the automatic cuts, known by the ugly term "the sequester" is that no-one can say exactly what they would mean in practice, even though they are only days away.

BBC: Sequester: When budget cuts are a matter of life and death