He has used it to take sudden administrative decisions – cutting fuel subsidies and expanding the Suez canal – as well as to strengthen the security apparatus.
Mr. Pierorazio said the district would now have to consider taking further steps, like eliminating vacant teaching and administrative positions, cutting back on interscholastic sports, and reducing noninstructional expenses like maintenance and upkeep of school buildings.
The Stride Rite Corporation, which makes Keds and its namesake brand of children's shoes, said yesterday that it had laid off 20percentt of its administrative employees, cutting 120 jobs, and would report a loss in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year.
[E1.] Delta Air Cuts Management Jobs by 20% Delta Air Lines, which is trying to persuade its pilots to accept a $305 million-a-year pay cut, said it is cutting administrative and management employment at the carrier by 1,000 positions, or about 20percentt.
And after a recent and painful round of cuts -- including denying teachers a contractually specified four-percent raise and cutting administrative costs by $75 million -- the district apparently feels it can cut no further.
* Cutting the purchase of weapons, ships and aircraft was nearly as popular as cutting administrative costs.
"I tend to do damage," he said, "by cutting administrative corners much too freely and by resisting, beyond all reason, needed administrative developments".
Hospitals are cutting administrative costs, staff and services.
Mr. Panetta should concentrate on cutting administrative workers — not the fighting force, intelligence personnel and front-line maintenance troops.
New cost-cutting proposals include ditching paper-based form-filling and moving rapidly to an online-only approach to customer services as a way of cutting administrative costs.
