The first reduction will come in May 2004, the commission said.
To save cash, G.E. was forced to cut its dividend by 68percentthethe first reduction since the Great Depression.
It would be the first reduction in delivery standards for first-class mail in 40 years.
Monday's announcement introduced the first reduction in the face value of the prize since 1949.
The sale represented the first reduction in the government stake in RBS since the £45bn taxpayer bailout seven years ago at the height of the banking crisis.
This week, the Federal Open Market Committee cut the target rate for overnight loans between banks to 4.75percentthethe first reduction since 2003.
When voters have complete information about each other's preferences, they will eliminate the dominated strategies in the first reduction.
"Then 2008 hit, and there was the first reduction in national legal business in a long time," he said.
The Electronic Data Systems Corporation, the world's No.2 computer services provider, cut its dividend by 67percentt -- its first reduction -- to preserve cash and to defend a credit rating that was lowered to junk this month.
The management board at DaimlerChrysler proposed today that the company's dividend be cut by more than half in the first reduction since the merger of DaimlerBenz and Chrysler in 1998.
Last month, services lost 102,000 jobs, the first reduction this year and also the largest drop -- other than a one-time aberration related to the employment of census workers -- since February 1991.
