1.   Get axe.

2.   Likewise a proposed shopping mall got the axe from local planners.

3.   The hen that lays the fewest eggs gets the axe.

4.   Then again, should Bob Dole be elected president, Kessler will get the axe, but fast.

5.   Will he fire Nick Bollettieri, too, like the four coaches who got the axe before him?

6.   Azharuddin got the axe because of his poor form with bat during the recent Indian tours of South Africa and the West Indies.

7.   If so, Kenneth Benjamin, who has lacked penetration so far in the series, is expected to be the pacer to get the axe.

8.   So they got the axe, including St Hilaire.

9.   Getting the axe were the powerful head of the presidential guard, Alexander Korzhakov, Federal Security Service chief Mikhail Barsukov and first deputy prime minister Oleg Soskovets.

10.   But the two sides have remained at odds over how much to cut the federal budget and which programs will get the axe.