CNN responded by backing its work, pointing to a TSA statement "acknowledging increased call-outs after we published" and saying the spokesman and Trump "may not like the truth but that won't stop us from reporting".
The group, called Airwars.org, had been tracking deaths caused by both Russian and U.S. airstrikes but said in a statement Friday that it was scaling back its work on "alleged Russian actions in Syria — so as best to focus our limited resources on continuing to properly monitor and assess reported casualties from the U.S. and its allies.
Mr Yeo spoke to Today's Jim Naughtie after the energy firm Cuadrilla announced it was scaling back its work at an exploration site in West Sussex on police advice.
The biggest contract winner, Spain's Repsol, has reportedly scaled back its work there because Pemex won't reimburse it for runaway inflation in rigs and workers.
Oxfam would be forced to cut back its work after December, meaning the 3.9 million people it planned to reach will now go without help.
Starting in September the company be gan cutting back its work force right up to the execu tive suite, with the firing of four vice presidents.
Under pressure from Republican lawmakers, Janet Napolitano, then the homeland security secretary, rescinded the report, and her department rolled back its work on violent right-wing extremism.
In Nigeria, where violence and insurgency have displaced more than 1 million people, Unicef has been forced to scale back its work around the case management of separated and unaccompanied children because the agency has received only half of the funding it needs for the programme.
NASA already has scaled back its work in crystallography, he adds, and is aggressively trying to recruit new researchers to dispel its admittedly poor image among biologists.
When Motorola began cutting back its work force early this year, Fassett, 57, decided to take a voluntary buyout, hoping to test the rumors that Cobol programmers were in demand because of the year 2000 problem--a computer malfunction that will strike hardest on decades-old Cobol programs.
