Now tempers have flared out in the open with an accusation that the Nassau Superior Officers Association, which represents every officer above the rank of patrolman, was bearing too large a share of the job-cut burden.
A liberal, she would be keen to complete the single market, promote free trade and cut the burden of regulation.
Tony Blair: No, but as I say to you, if you look overall, it is not as if we have cut the burden of taxation every year.
He pledged to cut that burden to a more manageable $20 billion by the end of 2004, but he also said that debt would rise to more than $28 billion before it fell.
Like TI, it also plans to securitise future receivables from its fixed-line subscribers.Deutsche Telekom, with almost euro50 billion of debts, says it will cut its burden this year by close to euro30 billion.
Brazil's cumbersome insolvency system consumes much of a failed business's assets in costs, typically leaving just 17 cents on the dollar.According to Dahlia Khalifa, one of the World Bank report's authors, an important way in which Mexico and other reformers have cut the burden on business is to shift bureaucratic tasks online.
FSB national chairman John Walker said: "We are pleased with some of the actions to cut the burden of red tape, help to get our young workers into employment, and measures to improve access to finance.
Their governments have pushed through some politically painful measures to shake up labour markets, cut pension burdens and increase working hours.
Their argument is that bigger cuts would burden business at a difficult time, both by increasing the cost of carbon for such large emitters as the steel and cement industries, and by raising the price of electricity for everyone else.
Cut these burdens, costs will come down, and access will rise through market forces.
First, let's dismiss the laughable idea that the United Auto Workers union will recognize the problem and willingly cut the burdens, freeze the already-rich pensions and make workers contribute far more to pensions and retiree health care.
