"Cutting a list of 350,000 names is not all that impressive," Steinhardt added.
They're also using the leverage of the recession to cut costs, demand concessions from unions and even cut some A-list stars out of participation in the gross receipts of a movie.
Curriculum reforms introduced by the last government in 2007 saw historical figures such as Winston Churchill cut from a list of figures recommended for teaching in an attempt to give teachers more flexibility.
"There probably wouldn't have been too many players that have either been cut from a list or retired that thought that was the right thing, or that things couldn't have gone differently.
Ameritech joins a growing list of companies that have recently announced job cuts, a list that includes the Intel Corporation.
Even so, the few brave souls that have stuck with the profession have often gone on to score cuts from A-list country stars, thus finding their compositions high up on the charts – and earning them a pretty penny that can change their starving-artist lifestyles.
Still a successful songwriter, with cuts by A-list artists like George Strait, Tim McGraw and Trace Adkins, Austin needed encouragement from friends such as Shane Stevens, co-producer and frequent collaborator Will Rambeaux and Doug Merrick.
Cynthia Dunbar, a lawyer from Richmond who is a strict constitutionalist and thinks the nation was founded on Christian beliefs, managed to cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century, replacing him with St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone.
In brief, the tool allows one to cut and paste a list of genes based on either Unigene or Genebank IDs and search PubMed for associated references based on annotations of the associated gene names.
The judges took two-and-a-half hours to cut the list from 13 to six.
