Libraries and day centres were closed, grants to voluntary groups cut, services outsourced, management posts culled, staff made redundant, wages frozen, costs shunted, partner agencies antagonised and mergers contemplated.
The number and severity of the changes that government has made is hard to believe; closing grant schemes after 40 minutes each month because they were too successful, or slashing the feed-in tariff illegally (as was shown by the cases to stop the cuts in the high court) and very deeply.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Grants and Contracts Web Page includes a listing of all active and recently closed research grant solicitation notices.
On Wednesday two schools that were on the list to be closed were granted a reprieve.
Now that the frontier has been closed, Arizona granted statehood, police interrogators tamed by the Miranda rule and the rest of us intimidated by the Patriot Act, Blaine cannot be the old-style individualist that his grandfather was.
Following sabotage by the prisoners and the Maze Prison escape in 1983 the prison workshops were closed, effectively granting all of the "Five Demands" but without any formal recognition of political status from the government.
And some sellers — or buyers — don't bother to attend the closing, granting power of attorney to their lawyer to sign documents on their behalf.
While Grant closed his New York visit by saying he could see himself playing for the Knicks, it is highly doubtful that he will end up calling Madison Square Garden home.
For most Spanish people, the Basque question was closed with the granting of very extensive powers to the Basque autonomous government in 1980.
Gail O. Mellow, president of La Guardia Community College in Queens, said that after the Drake Business School, a commercial institution that did not grant degrees, closed last year, La Guardia tried to see if it could help some of the students.
