In January, the department scaled back its Manhattan office and closed it at night, he said.
But in resuming the overtime patrols yesterday, the department scaled back the narcotics elements of the program, restoring only quality-of-life and warrant sweeps, a move that, along with the experiment itself, suggests that some police officials believe the program needs to be modified or scrapped.
Under his leadership, the department scaled back a voter-intimidation lawsuit from the Bush era involving the New Black Panther Party, a decision that conservatives used to portray the black-nationalist fringe group as a political ally of the Obama administration.
WASHINGTON — A former Justice Department lawyer hired during the Bush administration alleged on Tuesday that the department scaled down a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party last year because his former colleagues do not want to protect white people's civil rights.
Aggregated department scales were then created by averaging the individual scales, giving five continuous variables ranging from 1 to 5. Finally, these variables were standardized for the linear analyses.
Some analysts have predicted that 500,000 public-sector jobs might be lost as departments scale back their activities, and that perhaps twice as many private-sector jobs could go as the effects of the cuts begin to take hold.
Consecutive Interpretation is a department-scale elective open to the third-year English majors only.
However, except Consecutive Interpretation, all the other courses are compulsory in nature; in this sense, English major students even when having a less tight schedule will have at least 4.8 periods a day excluding department-scale and University-scale electives aimed at individuals.
The BBC drama department's scale and diversity of output, its support of writers like Hugo Blick or new talent like Jack and Harry Williams, and its ability to make decisions based on creative merit rather than just financial imperatives is unique in the television landscape worldwide.
He takes pride in the fact that his department will scale back the speed and size of a new ballistic-missile firing submarine so that its projected costs are more like $5 billion than $7 billion per ship.
