The health system, like all county departments, was ordered to trim 21 percent from last year's budget, even as federal aid was being reduced.
A particularly vile example cropped up recently in the Mirror's 3AM section, noting that "Actor Alfie Allen is ordered to trim back his, erm, undergrowth".
Pentagon agencies that handle specialized tasks like missile defense and commissaries, as well as Mr. Gates's directorates for such matters as personnel and readiness, policy, intelligence and public affairs, will be ordered to reduce costs by trimming personnel and streamlining business practices.
A trimming FASTA file, which includes polyA sequences of 5 bp, 10 bp and 20 bp in length, was used in conjunction with the vector-trimming option (-vt) of the assembler software, in order to trim off the polyA tails among the sequencing reads prior to assembly.
Since July 2002, Officer Hasani Shabazz, who works at Rikers Island, has refused orders to trim his beard, now about five inches long.
With David O'Leary O'Leeds under orders to trim the squad during the close season, Duberry looks set to become the first senior name to leave.
For two seasons, the Knicks have slashed, purged and repeated in order to trim payroll in an attempt to attract star players through free agency.
The local housing allowance (LHA) cap was designed to impose a standard rate for housing benefit claims, preventing high rents being covered, and standardising housing benefit rates in order to trim the welfare bill.
Some papers, such as the San Francisco Chronicle and the Des Moines Register, have deliberately reduced their circulation — usually by eliminating promotions and giveaways — in order to trim costs and improve their demographics.
While he has not publicly said that he would sign this second measure, Mr. Brown's staff members have been working with legislators to amend the bill in order to trim some costs.
But when House Republicans severed the traditional connection, arbitrary but politically effective, between farm subsidies and food stamps, it briefly seemed like they were looking for an opportunity to put libertarian populist principle into practice, by separating both outlays in order to trim or reform both separately.
