To offset weakening sales, Harley is paring production this year, to about 270,000 bikes, and is shuttering two plants.
Earlier this month the company, based in Toledo, Ohio, announced a $279 million third-quarter loss and more job cuts as automakers pared production.
Ten years or so ago, California was making too much wine, and so began paring production and trimming back on new vineyards.
Also on Tuesday, the Commerce Department reported that factory orders for manufactured goods slipped 4.6percentt in November as energy prices fell and businesses pared production to address declining consumer demand and halted economic growth.
[C7.] OPEC to Keep Pumps Running at a 25-Year High OPEC members said they had agreed to maintain their current policy and keep pumping at a 25-year high, rejecting calls from two members, Iran and Venezuela, to pare production.
Jackson's multi-tracks are masterfully arranged by musical director Kevin Antunes, who alternately pares down production to isolate elements of a song, fuses related tracks, and adds slight variations, dramatic pauses and interaction with the live performers, to give the music a freshness and vitality.
This year, OPEC pared its production in a bid to push down the level of commercial oil stocks in developed economies.
But after a six-hour private meeting, OPEC ministers decided to pare their production by complying strictly with targets that had been set up last year but were largely ignored.
McGwire's 70 home runs in 1998 and the 65 he hit the following season didn't power the Cardinals to the playoffs, and they reached the postseason the last two years despite his disabling injuries and pared power production.
The judiciously pared-down production that opened Sunday night at the Neil Simon Theater is a sprinting sylph compared to the opulence-bloated show that went under the same name a decade ago.
