Sentence examples for prune expenses from inspiring English sources
TRENTON — Declaring that New Jersey had reached an irrevocable "turning point" because of years of bad fiscal habits, Gov. Jon S. Corzine proposed a budget on Tuesday that would reduce the state's work force by 3,000 people, close three departments and prune expenses for services including colleges and hospitals.
Mr. Patel of UBS said more pruning of expenses should help improve Bristol's outlook, even if the drugs it is counting on do not reach the market before the patents on the name-brand drugs expire.
It cut 1,400 or so in the fourth quarter of last year, in continuing efforts to prune its sprawling online business and bring down expenses.
His options were to cut them back severely to regenerate growth, replace them or prune them, each of which would require significant expense and put the grove out of production for at least two years.
At the same time, Yahoo has been pruning less profitable units and laying off employees to reduce expenses.
It also said that it would reduce its planned capital expenses by $1.9 billion over two years, close certain production operations and prune a research and development organization that has mushroomed in the last few years.
Although preventing fires demands that we take serious measures — often at great expense, such as pruning forests — they are theoretically preventable, and their effects are reversible, assuming that we want to and should rebuild in fire-prone areas.
"Generally speaking, as long as the tree or shrub in question is not unhealthy or poisonous, the owner of the intruded-upon land has no basis to sue the tree owner for the intrusion or for the expense of the pruning," he said.
