A woman working in a senior position in the armed forces said that everyone in the army had been reminded before the election that Mr. Kostunica had vowed to "professionalize" and slash the size of the army.
But Romney's own economic proposals -- to eliminate certain entitlement programs and slash the size of government and the ranks of public workers, while offering tax relief that includes upper-income Americans -- are virtually toxic for black and Latino voters, Falcón, the NILP analyst, said.
Peter Taylor, chairman of the bank's board and an executive at Lehman Brothers, the Wall Street firm, said the bank had closed offices and slashed the size of its staff from 29 to 14.
Colleagues who had used to kiss Fink's ass now regarded him as a pariah, the guy who had cost the firm millions and slashed the size of their year-end bonuses, the millions of dollars traders earn at the end of each year that are the payoff for their long hours sitting in front of computer screens.
Mr. Romney and Mr. Giuliani released the figures a day after Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, reported that he raised less money in the second quarter than in the first, and said he would slash the size of his staff and focus his campaign on a few early voting states.
In presenting his budget, Mr. Bush cast himself not as an ideological warrior in the mold of Newt Gingrich, who as speaker of the House in the mid-1990's led an effort to slash the size and influence of government, but as a pragmatic manager of the nation's resources.
On one side: the Tea Party insurgents of 2010, led by Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, and the like, whose stated goal is to slash the size of the federal government, roll back the welfare state, and remake the nation's capital.
She did it by running on a promise to slash the size of government and to never, ever, pass new taxes.
At a speech this week at the University of Chicago he set out his economic stall firmly on the right, promising to slash the size of government and boost growth by simplifying income taxes, cutting corporate taxes and eliminating taxes on capital gains, dividends and inheritance.
The main proposal is to slash the size of the board and have it made up mainly of independent directors alongside two executives.
Schwarzenegger vowed to slash the size of government, stop deficit spending and end the pay-to-play culture of Sacramento, which he captured with stark simplicity in a TV spot: "Money goes in.
