The scary thing is that this slash-and-burn approach to governing may continue to work for Mr. Bush's people because the initial triumphs get all the headlines.

First, investors were increasingly irritated with the slash-and-burn approach Salomon Brothers and other American investment banks took to customer relations.

The Wyoming Senator is one of three Republicans who have come up with a sensible alternative to the House's slash-and-burn approach to arts funding.

The future lies with unsentimental newcomers who are willing to take a slash-and-burn approach, they say.

However, I do not support taking a slash-and-burn approach to services to do so.

"It is hard to quantify how much to attribute to the slash-and-burn approach and how much to other, more positive factors," Mr. Roach said.

Small farmers also continued to occupy Santa Cruz and many were responsible for the growing problems of deforestation because of slash-and-burn approaches to rice farming.

Fiscal consolidation does not mean reducing debt by taking a slash-and-burn approach to spending.

Mrs. Frahm, meanwhile, has criticized what she calls the slash-and-burn approach on her party's right-wing.

The first step is to adopt a slash-and-burn approach to bureaucracy - and that means firing bureaucrats.