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Despite the fact that Patch has not lived up to expectations for building up a hyperlocal business, AOL — and Armstrong — have hung on to the asset, even as it has drastically reduced its operations, with some 40% of staff laid off, and some 400 individual Patch sites affected either by consolidating with others or shutting down completely.

Instead, it has drastically scaled back its operations in Mazar-i-Sharif and Jalalabad and has refused to send any of its 20 staff members back into the country.

Importantly, it has allowed them to be treated in their homes, rather than in hospitals, and it has "drastically" reduced their mortality rates.

It has drastically increased the number of mainlanders allowed to visit Taiwan and aggressively courted visits from Taiwan opinion leaders, including legislators, former government officials, scholars and celebrities.

It has drastically reduced the fiscal resources that most countries have to accommodate rising old-age benefit costs, and at the same time it has left many elderly people more vulnerable.

Environmental groups supported by the Irish and Danish governments have been pressing British Nuclear to stop nuclear-fuel reprocessing because of radioactive emissions into the Irish Sea and into the atmosphere, which the company says it has drastically reduced.

British Energy, which owns eight nuclear power plants in Britain and part of the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, said today that it had drastically lowered its estimate of what its power plants were worth, leading to a loss of £4.3 billion ($7 billion) in the fiscal year ended March 31.

It nonetheless modestly beat its financial goals, which it had drastically reduced earlier this year as demand for Internet advertising began to plummet.

The Spanish government, one of the Bush administration's most important allies in Iraq, said Tuesday that it had drastically scaled back its diplomatic staff here.

WASHINGTON -- Top advisers to the president defended the Obama administration on Tuesday from criticism that it had drastically over-extended its authority in seizing telephone records for the Associated Press as part of a leak investigation.

(Reuters) GUINEA: U.N. PULLBACK The office of the United Nations high commissioner for refugees said it had drastically reduced the number of its relief workers in southern Guinea because of increased fighting between the Guinean Army and rebel fighters from Sierra Leone.