Businesspeople are suddenly less despondent.Mr Singh began with a small but bold cut in diesel subsidies, which mainly benefit the better-off.
There is a certain attraction to the bold cut and thrust of these counter-histories and the reader of these lectures may well be disappointed to discover that during the 19th century, the counter-history Foucault celebrates was transformed into something rather different, and this is where any praise of his comes to an abrupt halt.
Other options include a shaggy bob or even, if you're up for it, a bold pixie cut.
Gordon Brown was accused of failing to bring public finances under control - despite delivering a final budget that will go down in history for his bold cut in the basic rate of income tax to its lowest in 75 years.
To keep this feeling from becoming too suffocating, Mr. Maltzan makes a series of bold cuts through other parts of the building, creating surprising visual connections to the world outside.
Clegg also warned of "savage and bold" cuts in spending under a Lib Dem administration – but suggested they would be in areas that allowed vital public services to be protected.
Surprisingly, Steve Jenkins's bold cut-paper collages suit these funny, thought-provoking (and previously unpublished) "Animal Poems" just as well.
It would be the kind of bold, cut-the-veteran type of personnel statement that football coaches often make to shake up a team.
In America the Federal Reserve has hardly any room left for bold cuts: its target rate is at 1% but the actual rate is lower.
Now, relieved of inefficient plants (and of other liabilities as a result of their bankruptcies), the two firms are bouncing back, as is Ford, which also made bold cuts but declined handouts.
Drawing the Americans into talks, the Russians have long calculated, may be a way to limit the scope of the Bush administration's antimissile program and to pin Mr. Bush down on the bold cuts in strategic arms that he has promised in vague terms but has yet to specify.
