Duke University is currently downsizing the number of faculty members but seems to add a new layer of bureaucracy every year.
The board considered downsizing the number of students in order to maintain the full scholarship, but it would've required closing at least one of Cooper Union's schools, board members said.
Britain has already announced plans to downsize the number of troops it will have available for future NATO operations.
The MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire, whose constituency fell victim to Johnston Press's plans to downsize a number of daily titles to weekly publication, said the digital age had not yet brought a substitute for local journalism.
In the public sector, while wages and bonuses were cut, "specific plans to downsize the number of civil servants were limited to a commitment to replace only 20percentt of those who retired".
NBC said in a statement that it had "downsized the number of folks on the ground, to limit exposure to the danger of the power plant," and that the people who stayed had done so voluntarily.
Retailers such as Gap and Macy's, for example, are choosing to downsize the number of stores they currently operate, due to the increased focus on online and mobile shopping.
In response to what Garcetti described as a particularly out-of-hand battle in 2006 between a tiny bakery in Echo Park and the city (which was asking the bakery to install a grease interceptor and build subterranean parking), the councilman began pushing through an initiative called "12-2," which aims to downsize the number of government agencies a new business has to interact with from 12 to two.
The addition of Tier 2 and 3 criteria was intended to downsize the number of CpGs/genes whose differential methylation likely represented the most robust of biologically significance.
To downsize the number of potential candidate genes from initially more than 27.000 genes to about 100 genes, all genes with expression levels beyond the RT-qPCR detection limit (i.e. Ct 50) in the healthy control samples were excluded.
Conversely, in 2012, the central government downsized the number of residency training grants by 10% (from 5,000 to 4,500), passing onto the Regions further planning and funding responsibility for medical postgraduate training.
