If your adjusted gross income is too high the government could snatch away your tax benefits for college costs, chop down your exemptions, surcharge your annual Medicare bill $6,869, haircut your itemized deductions, deny you a protective shield against the alternative minimum tax or subject your dividends and capital gains to a 3.8% surtax.
College presidents, that is, get paid for fundraising, not for cost-chopping.
For instance, Mr. Milch of "Capitol News" is expected to leave for a rival studio, Columbia, when his contract ends in a few weeks, and this is probably the last season for "Newhart". Moreover, studio morale suffered late last year when TVS-directed cost-cutting chopped the list of writer-producer teams under contract to 15 from 22 and eliminated the jobs of some senior staff members.
Back offices will serve multiple stores rather than just one, chopping costs.
Chip Bergh, the chief executive, is chopping costs, perhaps to prepare the family-owned firm for the stockmarket.
The way H.P. made its numbers, Mr. House said, was not just cutting any old costs, but by "chopping R.&D.," which had always been sacred at H.P. The research and development budget used to be 9 percent of revenue, Mr. House told me; now it was closer to 2 percent.
Rolling up his sleeves, Hartmann did a brilliant job of selling off peripheral and underperforming businesses and streamlining and chopping costs out of the core businesses he wanted to keep.
49 An additional study compared the direct medical cost of CHOP and R-CHOP in young patients with favorable IPI risk DLBCL from the perspective of the Italian National Health Service.
So what was the cost to FINRA of chopping off some 300 senior salaries?
These clever minicells are only one way the company keeps chopping the cost of providing each customer with unlimited calls.
