The administration's budget proposal would cut overall development funding in half, slash international disaster assistance by 43percentt and completely eliminate the leading U.S. food-aid program.
This week Kirk Kerkorian, who used to be described as a corporate raider in the 1980s and is now a "minority activist", helped persuade General Motors to cut its dividend by half, slash executive pay and take his man on to the board of directors (see article).
Newport Harbor junior Nic Sargeant scored 16 of his team-high 23 points in the first half, slashing aggressively, popping from the perimeter and stepping into passing lanes to trigger end-to-end layups.
Her employer cut its own hiring in half and slashed the annual Chinese New Year bonus a month ago by 90percentt, she added.
So far this year, Echo Bay has suspended operations at one mine and scaled down at another, cut its exploration budget in half and slashed spending on new projects by 85percentt.
In a trial of 38,546 people 60 and up, sponsored by the VA and Merck, a single dose reduced the incidence of shingles over the next three years by half and slashed severe cases of postshingles pain (usually lasting three months or more) by two-thirds, according to the results in the New England Journal of Medicine (June 2 , 2005.
Floating half-moons, slashed diagonals, stripes of solid color: these cunningly arranged building blocks cohered into harmonious nonobjective compositions, reminiscent of Alexander Rodchenko or, especially, his fellow Russian El Lissitsky.
The other, having seen its foe reduce its labour costs by half and slash prices by 15%, pursued it to exactly the same place, he says.
Indeed, advocates once predicted that widespread and easy access to emergency contraceptives would cut the number of induced abortions in half and slash teenage birth rates.
The Pataki administration's first blow was dismantling the State Energy Department, cutting expenditures on energy-efficiency programs in half and slashing utility-financed energy conservation programs.
