The measure's introduction comes after rolling power cutbacks in California, a problem Republicans say will give their bill fresh momentum.
About an hour west of here, in the woods near Mendocino, Michael Potts, author of "The New Independent Home: People & Houses That Harvest the Sun, Wind & Water" (Chelsea Green), was comfortably ensconced in his off-the-grid home, feeling a Zen calm as power cutbacks swirled around him.
These activities generally fall into one of the three categories: noise source modifications (e.g. retrofitting engine nacelles with sound absorption material), land use regulations (e.g. zoning land near an airport as nonresidential), and operational controls (e.g. power cutbacks during operations; this is considered impractical because the pilot workloads and flight safety decrease).
There are real spending caps in the deal that, because of perpetual inflation, will reduce the Pentagon's purchasing power and force cutbacks.
As air chief and then defense chief, Elworthy presided over a decrease in British military power, spending cutbacks, and growing concern over Soviet hegemony and the emergency in Northern Ireland.
Since Iceland's foreign aid is targeted in sectors for which the country has particular expertise (e.g., fisheries, geothermal power), the cutbacks will have a substantial impact in countries which receive Icelandic aid – most noticeably in Sri Lanka, where ICEIDA is pulling out altogether.
Mr. Baucus's bill would create a Medicare commission, with power to make cutbacks in the program, unless blocked by subsequent legislative action.
A report by the Economic Policy Institute examined the effect of recent cutbacks at the state and local level — including direct loss of government jobs and indirect loss of suppliers' jobs; the jobs that should have been added to keep up with population growth; and the reduction in purchasing power from other cutbacks.
And yet, except for the demonstrations and energetic recall campaigns that roiled Wisconsin this year, unionists and other stern critics of corporate power and government cutbacks have failed to organize a serious movement against the people and policies that bungled the United States into recession.
Business groups, which want to lower power prices, supported the cutback in the conservation charge -- which adds less than 1percenttothethe bill -- and have advocated eliminating it entirely.
The recent corporate battle that brought William S. Paley, the network founder, and Laurence A. Tisch, the company's biggest stockholder, into power has prompted further cutbacks, affecting a wide range of employees.
